http://debatinghistory.wordpress.com/
I also just posted a new topic on the 1948 South African Apartheid!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
and again...
I have also finished a complete overhaul of the Wordpress website, and is more user friendly AND more visually appealing.
As for attendance in my website, I have achieved a spike of about 35 people on one of my higher days, and a low of 0. I have a current total of 227 views which I think is incredible.
If I have 227 people reading what I think and feel, this could be a tool used to propel me into a realm of historic stardom. This is an alternate route of being published, like it or not!
For a historian to be published it usually take a few self accomplishments to ignite it:
1) PhD from a respected History accomplished University. (Brown, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Michigan, Washington State University, Kansas, Texas, etc...)
2) Be employed by a larger University where you can be seen and heard.
3) Have published works already being used. (textbooks, pamphlets, historical theories, etc...)
For someone like me (24 years old, and a STUDENT at a undergraduate level) to be published means this could also elevate me to obtaining acceptance into a good graduate school. One can only hope.
As for attendance in my website, I have achieved a spike of about 35 people on one of my higher days, and a low of 0. I have a current total of 227 views which I think is incredible.
If I have 227 people reading what I think and feel, this could be a tool used to propel me into a realm of historic stardom. This is an alternate route of being published, like it or not!
For a historian to be published it usually take a few self accomplishments to ignite it:
1) PhD from a respected History accomplished University. (Brown, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Michigan, Washington State University, Kansas, Texas, etc...)
2) Be employed by a larger University where you can be seen and heard.
3) Have published works already being used. (textbooks, pamphlets, historical theories, etc...)
For someone like me (24 years old, and a STUDENT at a undergraduate level) to be published means this could also elevate me to obtaining acceptance into a good graduate school. One can only hope.
Wordpress
So I have pretty much completed my website. It was a lot more difficult than I would have ever anticipated, but the audience I have received seems to be worth the headache. I still have a couple gaps that I need to iron out within the week that include shuffling around the tabs. I wanted to post video, or audio interviews that I have collected while researching numerous historical events but was saddened to hear that this would be almost impossible. Since the research was done through much of Ferris and its resources, I would need to obtain permission from the University, AND permission through each person interviewed. Posting something like this on a website is a very touchy thing for most veterans. Most are not proud of some of the things they have done, and many have told very few people.
One person that I had interviewed broke down in tears, and I had to stop the recording. It was related to what we would consider "war time heroics", but what he would consider a duty. It always amazes me when seeing and hearing veterans speak about their peers. The comrodary built in the military may not surpass anything else. As always, "hat's off to them".
One person that I had interviewed broke down in tears, and I had to stop the recording. It was related to what we would consider "war time heroics", but what he would consider a duty. It always amazes me when seeing and hearing veterans speak about their peers. The comrodary built in the military may not surpass anything else. As always, "hat's off to them".
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