The McDonogh Brothers of Lafayette College

(A Story Realized Through Digital Humanities Research)

Jethro Israel

Fall 2013

• The McDonogh Brothers • The Digital Humanities Initiative • Students of Africana Studies

Spring 2015

•My Research BEGINS!!! •Database Construction• Tiki Toki

Summer 2015

• Transition To Omeka• My Individual Research• Creating A Product

Omeka

Tiki Toki

A larger, more

dynamic platform

Access to graphs, tables,

maps, and other features

Web based

timeline software ONLY

ResearchHistorical Significance

The Primary Sources

Capturing Agency

Representation

• Their Circumstance• Their Individual Lives• Their Simultaneous

Function

Outcome

Cohesion

Function

Accessibility

Implications

•Continued Research

CUR NON? exhibits.lafayette.edu/mcdo

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Jethro Israel