Expanding Horizons
Education is (at least) a two-step process: becoming aware of how
little or what we don’t know, and then incorporating the new content into our own
lives either through memorization of that content or the incorporation/utilization
of specified techniques.
More Than Meets the
Eye
Guilty as charged: when I initially committed myself to becoming
acquainted with the world of blogs, I apparently did not commit to surveying a sufficient
number of them. Having surveyed several
others, and one exceptional blog in particular, I realize I initially conceived
of blogs merely as personal diaries (professionally-related or otherwise).
After encountering and reviewing “Publishing the Long Civil
Rights Movement” (at https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2012/06/)
I realized that blogs aren’t just individual diaries, but that they can serve
as social or national diaries as well.
“Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” (“PTLCRM”)
constitutes, as it were, an American social diary covering up to 150 years of
American civil rights related activity. The
blogs themselves provide quick introductions to a variety of civil and human rights
issues (such as women’s suffrage, organized protests, riots, labor disputes,
lynchings – and not just black people’s rights) and the abundance of links
contained within nearly every blog aid readers in pursuing a deeper and broader
understanding of the subject matter.
PTLCRM provides, both in its blogs and along its borders and
margins, a veritable smorgasbord of links to historical archives, secondary
scholarly content, and other conversation boards. The blog, which is set up and laid out much
like a typical webpage, simultaneously serves as a scholarly resource, an
online discussion board, and an online memorial to the heroes and victims of
America’s civil rights legacy.
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