Exploring History Through a Digital Lens.
Fixed Games, Fixed Systems is an analysis of ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson’s role in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal and how his testimony demonstrates how unfair labor practices contributed to the scandal unfolding. Furthermore, it relates the scandal with other labor struggles to emphasize the labor aspects of the scandal, specifically how the scandal was used to entrench ownership control.
This essay was written for Dr. Susan Fernsebner’s HIST 299 class at the University of Mary Washington.
Cassette Tapes & The Tape That Made America is a group informational multimedia exploration of the cultural impact played by cassette tapes in the United States.
Cassette Tapes encapsulates the website portion of the project, documenting the cassette tape’s antecedents, invention, and cultural impact through individual posts.
The Tape That Made America is the corresponding documentary, providing a brief overview of the information on the website, as well as emphasizing the cassette tape’s cultural impact with one-on-one interviews.
This project was made alongside Abby Firestone, Ashley Palin, and Grayson Donohue for Dr. Jeffrey McClurken’s HIST 325 class.