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October Events!
October was busy for the Holiday Pride! Here's a summary of what we did.
Al Preston
5 days ago3 min read
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Interviewing Tim Ziaukas
A look into the events that led us to interviewing Tim Ziaukas, a professor at the Univerity of Pittsburgh and founder of Pittsburgh's Thursday Night Live.
Al Preston
Oct 14 min read
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Case Study: Twine
A closer look at Twine as a programming system and a way to teach history!
Al Preston
Jul 305 min read
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Pride Month Recap
A short recap of how our Pride month went! It was wonderful to meet folks!
Al Preston
Jul 113 min read
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Going to the Archives: The Heinz History Center
Going to archives and searching through old documents is a historians favorite past time. The Heinz History Center's archive is an excellent one!
Al Preston
Jun 275 min read
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Up and Coming Pop-up Exhibit
A look into the process of the creation of a physical exhibit.
Al Preston
May 304 min read
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Making of: Podcasts and Oral Histories
This is just a brief overview of how we make our podcast episodes!
Al Preston
Apr 254 min read
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Duquesne University Research Symposium
A recap of the Holiday Pride's poster presentation at Duquesne University's Research Symposium.
Al Preston
Mar 214 min read
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Interviewing Thomas Rainbolt
A short discussion on Thomas Rainbolt's thesis about the LGBT+ Networks in Pittsburgh.
alexanderrpreston7
Mar 145 min read
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Histoy is a Cage Match
Exciting news! The Holiday Pride will be presenting in DC this April!
alexanderrpreston7
Feb 213 min read
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A Peak into the Ivory Tower: Historical Research
This is a little insight into how academic and some public history gets going.
Al Preston
Feb 144 min read
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Making of: The Golden Age of Piracy DND Module
A look into the mechanics that went into the creation of our pirate DND module!
alexanderrpreston7
Dec 27, 20244 min read
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What is Public Memory?
What is public memory and what does it matter? This is just a brief discussion on the road blocks to studying history.
alexanderrpreston7
Nov 22, 20244 min read
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Case Study: Voyant
Voyant is a text-mining tool that is very useful for understanding large bodies of work. We take a look at it as a tool for history.
alexanderrpreston7
Nov 15, 20244 min read
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What are we Doing?
What's with this website? What are we doing? When are we going to talk about Pittsburgh more?
alexanderrpreston7
Nov 8, 20243 min read
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Interviewing Scott Noxon
A little peek behind the curtain on how we came to interview Scott Noxon.
alexanderrpreston7
Oct 25, 20245 min read
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Making Of: Book Reviews
A little bit about how we read and process books for the book reviews.
alexanderrpreston7
Sep 27, 20246 min read
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Case Study: Artifical Intelligence
This is a short case study on AI and it's uses as a tool for education.
alexanderrpreston7
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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Interviewing Chuck Honse
How Silas managed to get to interview Chuck Honse.
alexanderrpreston7
Aug 20, 20243 min read
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Oral History Process
By Al Preston            A huge theme of this project and of queer history in general is discovery of identity. Many queer historians...
alexanderrpreston7
Aug 8, 20249 min read
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