Author: Garrison

Over the course of the last 40 years, video games have taken the world by storm. From simple games such as Tetris and Pac-Man, all the way up to today’s revolutionary games such as Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, this new medium of history and technology has provided a generation with a new understanding…

Documents and words have shaped America. There can be no doubt of that. From the Declaration, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, to the Gettysburg Address, to the famous words of modern presidents, there is without a doubt that throughout American History, the pen is mightier than the sword. The Federalist Papers were a defining document…

Maps of both past and present times are always an interesting subject to study. How areas change over time is something that historians and mapmakers alike have taken on and emphasized. Maps of the United States, in particular, are always interesting to study. I chose a map that dealt with most of the state of…

Historical Research, especially in the modern age, is full particularly puzzling paradoxes. One such is the combination of digitization and special collections. There is a lot of complexity when it comes to examining and digitizing special collections, yet in the modern age, there is also a lot of simplicity to this process. The complexity lies…

In today’s modern age, understand who votes what way is something that people take very seriously. Perhaps even more important is the history of voting in certain areas. How states and counties voted in the past plays as an indicator to their current situations, and how they vote in modern times. It also allows a…