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Public History in the Digital Realm. By Lisa Fthenakis, a public history grad student. As we are coming to the end of the semester, I am wrapping up my work on my final project, an app interpreting the Slave Quarters of Decatur House. While I wish I could share the wireframes and script, I do have a few thoughts that I rounded up in a final project statement. Stated in our class discussion, is what the modern visitor is m.

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Known as the Godmother of Egyptology. For historians, EEF can be considered part of a larger British Victorian Biblical archaeological movement, entangled with British imperialist interests in Egypt. Image courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society. A Thousand Miles up the Nile. She believed that the Egyptians were not capable of protecting their history from themselv.

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