Gabrielle BossyNov 4, 20132 minPinning Down the Visuals of HistoryThe above image is a screenshot of a photo I recently pinned on the website HistoryPin. For those of you who don’t know, HistoryPin allow...
Gabrielle BossyNov 2, 20132 minThings You Should Know About Wearing a PoppyToday I had a conversation with a fellow public historian, Steph Johns, about poppy etiquette. She shared a story with me from last year...
Gabrielle BossyOct 25, 20134 minThe Potential of a Photograph: A look at the influence of photo manipulationFor me, the readings by Errol Morris this week which discussed photo manipulation, its power and the lengthy process of detecting it made...
Gabrielle BossyOct 21, 20132 minMap Tiler: A Whole New GIS WorldOkay so to get my hands dirty in GIS (for those of you who don’t know, GIS stands for Geographical Information System) methods, this week...
Gabrielle BossyOct 18, 20132 minFriday Historical Trip: Huntsville & Bracebridge, OntarioNow that I’ve entered the Public History program, I’ve really been noticing how many of the buildings that we enter on a day to day basis...
Gabrielle BossyOct 13, 20132 minHistory Meets the Future: A Friday Historical Trip tony Best Friend's ProposalLet me set the scene. It’s a beautiful fall Friday afternoon at Cranberry Creek Gardens and I am driving my friend Lucy along with her s...
Gabrielle BossyOct 5, 20133 minOil Springs: Step Back to See the FutureYesterday, my class visited the Canadian Oil Museum in the village of Oil Springs to learn about the beginning of the modern oil industry...
Gabrielle BossyOct 2, 20134 minUshering the Non-ParticipantsAfter three summers of working at a museum who is constantly visited by the same crowd of loyal followers, the question of how to attract...
Gabrielle BossyOct 2, 20133 minUsing Textual Analysis in a Professional SettingIn in Monday’s Digital History course we explored the various ways that text analysis and topic modelling are being used to understand an...
Gabrielle BossySep 30, 20132 minSERENDIP-O-NO?!: MY TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS WITH SERENDIP-O-MATICJust recently, I was directed to the website Serendip-o-matic which uses words, key phrases or big sections of your own text to pull prim...
Gabrielle BossySep 24, 20134 minThe History of Only a MomentAt a recent talk by Claire Campbell, I was taken by her idea that too many heritage sites depict only a moment in time rather than a full...
Gabrielle BossySep 21, 20133 minTrains: Once Necessary, Now HistoryFor this Friday’s romp to a historical site I thought I’d expose my readers to the train stations of Tillsonburg. I do plan on taking th...
Gabrielle BossySep 21, 20132 min“MY BACK STILL ACHES WHEN I HEAR THAT WORD…”Whenever I say I’m from Tillsonburg, one of the first things people respond with is “Tillsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that wo...
Gabrielle BossySep 20, 20132 minSourcing the UnsourcedNeil Young performing at the Riverboat Coffeehouse, 1965. Photo credit: Manfred Buchheit This week for my digital history course I was as...
Gabrielle BossySep 16, 20131 minIAN H. CROSBY: DIGGING UP SOME OF MY PASTCheck out this cool medal my sister has from my great-grandpa! He was a first place shooting champion in 1932 with the National Rifle As...
Gabrielle BossySep 13, 20132 minAnnandale National Historic Site- A Must See!Every Friday I will be traveling to a different historic site or interesting place for historians (and the general public) to visit. Fir...
Gabrielle BossySep 12, 20131 minOrdinary Men by Christopher Browning (Book Review)If you’re looking for a book that really makes you question your previous notions, look no further than Christopher Browning’s Ordinary M...
Gabrielle BossySep 12, 20131 minWaging Heavy Peace by Neil Young (Book Review)In his autobiography, Neil Young tells the intimate details of his life as a kid in Omemee, Ontario to a full-blown rock legend and let m...
Gabrielle BossySep 11, 20133 minSo what exactly are the digital humanities?After two hours of grappling with this very question in my Digital History course, and thinking about it since, I have finally begun to f...
Gabrielle BossyJan 30, 20132 minHistorical Friday Trip:The Western ArchivesSo I am a little late writing about this Friday’s visit to a site of historical interest but here it is! This past Friday my Public Hist...