The chapter called “Introduction” in\u00a0American Disasters\u00a0by\u00a0<\/em>Steven Biel explains in detail what the book will be about and how each section is going to cover a certain theme. The themes are split into four parts from capital, faith, community, and possibility. I did enjoy how the introduction opened up with talking about the group who went down to find the Titanic shipwreck. The crew explaining how the technology was not up to date and could have imploded if a hairline crack happens to appear. It gives us a vivid picture of what they went through. I also do like how they talk about making history like the Apollo crew did when they landed on the moon but they were able to send shots of the Titanic shipwreck for the first time since it sank. \u00a0This is a way of digital history that lives on. They said it was airing on the Discovery Chanel. As in\u00a0gparker77<\/a>\u00a0post, he explains the way digital history is open to the public for anyone to be able to search history. A new way to have the public engage in history. \u00a0gparker77<\/a>\u00a0did a great job covering what digital history is. I do like how his post relates to the introduction of Biel’s book. The Titanic explore team is a part of digital and written history at the same time. Anyone can look up the footage of their exploration and see what many people were able to see when they were watching it on tv on the Discovery Chanel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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