Digital History

Amanda Arceneaux, Brown University
Amanda Arceneaux is a PhD candidate in History at Brown University. She offers the following abstract: "This paper is my first take in articulating my methodology and process in developing a videogame for my history dissertation on early modern herbals and knowledge production systems. It looks at why my research lends itself well to an interactive digital format by discussing the historical research of my project and the digital evolution its underwent. The essay concludes by putting the project into the context of historical videogames and looking at examples from Level 2 that exemplify features of a scholarly videogame."