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Food Habits and Racial Thinking
Date: October 24, 2012
Creator: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on The Food We Eat. In this presentation, the author discusses race and food habits.
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History 4263: Palestinian History
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Stockdale, Nancy L.
Description: This poster discusses a project for a UNT history course, History 4263, on Palestinian history. In the course, students explore historical foundations and interpretations of modern Palestinian history.
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The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools
Date: September 9, 2009
Creator: Nelson, Robert K.; Nesbit, Scott & Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
Description: This article discusses the History Engine project. One of the primary goals of the History Engine project has been to design a research and writing exercise modest enough in its analytical scope and its length that it allows students to "do history" long before a senior seminar or capstone course. Another important goal, discussed in this article, is to capture this research to amass a large history archive.
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Mapping Texts: Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization To Unlock The Research Potential of Historical Newspapers
Date: 2011
Creator: Torget, Andrew J., 1978-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Christensen, Jon & McGhee, Geoff
Description: This paper discusses a grant project to develop a series of experimental models for combining possibilities of text-mining with geospatial mapping in order to unlock the research potential of large-scale collections of historical newspapers. This paper documents the experiments and their outcomes, as well as the authors' recommendations for future work.
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Mock Trial on Stalin and Stalinism
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Description: This poster describes an experiential learning activity for the UNT course History 5040, Historiography of Stalinism. The goal is to apply critical reasoning to Stalin's politics in a courtroom environment.
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[Review] Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands
Date: January 2011
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Description: This book review discusses 'Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands' edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton. The book examines the individuals who inhabited the Gulf of Mexico regions, analyzing the ways in which these people defined and redefined themselves amid a world of competing loyalties.
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Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers
Date: June 2011
Creator: Yang, Tze-I; Torget, Andrew J. & Mihalcea, Rada
Description: In this paper, the authors explore the task of automatic text processing applied to collections of historical newspapers, with the aim of assisting historical research. In particular, in this first stage of the project, the authors experiment with the use of topical models as a means to identify potential issues of interest for historians.
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Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia
Date: 2006
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Description: This book chapter discusses slavery, politics, and secession in the Valley of Virginia.
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