The Voices
Interviews, podcasts, video, oral histories, profiles, and recovered conversations documenting what other people know, practice, remember, adapt, and transmit. This lane treats interview media as folkloristic fieldwork: primary documentation of living cultural knowledge, with attention to the informal practices, cultural meanings, memories, relationships, technologies, and forms of authority that formal accounts often miss.
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Greg Baldwin Oral History: Memory and Activism in the AIDS Era
A two-day oral history with Greg Baldwin became a layered digital presentation of Miami LGBTQ+ history — video, full audio, transcript, context, and a public-knowledge afterlife. This is the story, the presentation, and the toolkit behind…
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Dale Kronkright on Shaping Georgia O’Keeffe’s Digital Image
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, conservator Dale Kronkright helped test computational imaging technologies while making the research process visible to the public through digital media. This conversation explores the Georgia O’Keeffe Imaging Project as both a…
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Laura Bang on Classroom Digital Humanities Projects at Villanova University
Laura Bang discusses two student-built digital humanities projects at Villanova University: one interpreting the history of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and another centered on a historic Peruvian manuscript. The projects show how relatively modest digital tools can support…
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Going Mobile: Implications of Mobile Technology Uptake for Cultural Organizations
Marcus J. Wilson argues that cultural organizations need to treat mobile access as a fundamental design requirement rather than an optional enhancement. Written as smartphones and tablets were rapidly reshaping web use, the piece examines responsive…
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Historic Uses of Lime Mortar, and Its Continuing Importance Today
Andy DeGruchy explains historic lime mortar, compatible repointing, traditional building technology, craft knowledge, and the importance of passing specialized masonry expertise between generations.
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How We Are (and Are Not) Adaptively Reusing Whole Cities
Aaron Lubeck examines adaptive reuse at the scale of cities, connecting preservation, development, sustainability, economics, policy, and the environmental, social, and economic value of existing buildings.