Author name: Annemarie Christiansen

Flourish was my biggest enemy this term (that I was likely to contend with in the future), so I elected to go back in and make a new Flourish datamap with information from World Population Review. I feel like this one was more of a combination of information from week 6 and week 8 because […]

My guiding question or thought for this little project was mostly based around Chicago newspapers in the mid to late 19th century and the presence of Indigenous people/problems in their newspapers, because we hear about Reconstruction mostly in relation to the abolition of slavery, reuniting the country post civil war, life in the south, the

This is one of, if not the, hardest digital scholarship tool I have used. It made me a little insane. It made me lose sleep. It gave me a headache. To give Flourish a little bit of credit, I am not a math girly or a data science girly, so some of this took a

Year: circa 1880s Culture: Diné (Navajo, Southwest US) Maker: Unknown Medium: Woven wool tapestry in red, black, and light orange/cream, knotted edges with slight fringing Title: Men’s Wearing Blanket With a cross and serrated triangle pattern in red, black, and a creamy orange color, this piece was traditionally worn either around both shoulders or wrapped

Storymap JS feels a lot like PowerPoint with some extra pizzazz, or like a Prezzie (which I loved to use when I was younger). This whole thing certainly took some time to get used to. This is definitely more of an exploration into Storymap JS using some information I found vaguely interesting in order to

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As different generations of children mature and make their way through school, educators are hard pressed to find different ways to keep them engaged and support their learning. Enter: video games. They tend to be perceived as just a pass time or a hobby pursued by youths of today, but they can be utilized to

History tends to be made up of the things left behind; stories, physical items, buildings, those are the pieces used to craft the narratives that explain human history at its core. With that, the information available about some items can be overwhelming — like the entirety of the history of the Mona Lisa and how

Research is an ironically personal thing; it’s so specific to each person and how their brain works best. Do they need to make a whole list of questions and work their way systematically through the information? Do they start specific and work their way outwards or do they do the opposite? Or do they need

Hey! My name is Annemarie Christiansen and I’m a History and Spanish major here at Knox. I have two dogs (Hazel, a chocolate labradoodle, and Dolly, a black and white sheepadoodle), and two leopard geckos (named Winston and Marvin), along with an older sibling and a younger sibling. I love to cook, read, go outside,