The digital tool Tracing Transformations in a Digital Age uses mapping and time-aware tools to visually reconstitute the spatial history of Civil War - and Reconstruction-era Hilton Head, one of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. In our own time, Hilton Head Island is known as a vacati...

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1. Verfasser:	Byrd, Dana E. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2015
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1860-1865 Digital Humanities Hilton Head Island, SC
Online-Zugang:	kostenfrei
Zusammenfassung:	The digital tool Tracing Transformations in a Digital Age uses mapping and time-aware tools to visually reconstitute the spatial history of Civil War - and Reconstruction-era Hilton Head, one of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. In our own time, Hilton Head Island is known as a vacation paradise with pristine white-sand beaches and manicured golf courses. The history of the spatial transformation of the island and its direct connection with the local transition from slavery to freedom is important yet infrequently told, let alone shared in an open-source format. Changes in the island's use, coupled with the natural ravages of time (including a severe hurricane in 1893), have effaced many of the material traces of Hilton Head's past, leading researchers to rely more heavily on other evidence of the area's history. Tracing Transformations mines extant archival sources and uses that information to reconstruct the region's visual transformation between the years 1860 and 1865.
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource
ISSN:	1543-1002