My Student Kate's Obsidian Demo

A while ago one of my History Majors, Kate Brekke (she’s now in grad school expanding on this research) did a demonstration for our Historical Methods course of how she had used the app Obsidian to organize and link her notes in order to gain insights from her research. Kate was reading primary sources (newspapers) to build a narrative of bootlegging and liquor smuggling across the US/Canadian border at Rainy Lake near International Falls, Minnesota. As she described, using the graph feature in Obsidian actually alerted Kate to connections between her subjects that she might not have made otherwise. Kate also had some interesting things to say about being a student historian.