Projects by Jason Heppler

Here are the results of scholarly study, sleepless nights, and a restless mind.

Digital History

Framing Red Power

Digital history analysis of the Trail of Broken Treaties and mass media

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Progressive Image of American Indians

Digital history analysis of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the ways American Indian performers were portrayed

The Buffalo Bill Project

This project aims to collect documentary materials, create historical data and visualizations, to explore, compare, query, and manipulate historical information to advance scholarship on Cody's role in the making of the modern American West

William F. Cody Digital Archive

Digital archive of the papers of William F. Cody

Digital History Directory

Currently in development, the Digital History Directory will be a listing of digital scholars and serve as a place for others to learn about digital projects and connect with other scholars.

POND: Participating Online In-Depth: A Digital History Lab

POND, still under development, is being built under the supervision of Prof. William Thomas and serves as a research portal for undergraduate students using digital archives for primary source research

Programs and Applications

The Rubyist Historian: Ruby Fundamentals for Humanist Scholars

A user's manual on the basics of Ruby programming for humanities scholars

FREQ-r

A Ruby command line word frequency generator

HStream

An RSS reader dedicated to aggregating news about digital humanities

Freelance Web Design

James Valley Nursery

Completed the design of my dad's business website, including graphic design, back-end development, and front-end design

South Dakota Nursery and Landscape Association

Developed the Content Management System, design, and maintenance for SDNLA