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Hi Will,
First of all, your exhibit looks absolutely amazing! The background image, header image, font style and color all complement each other to produce a really dramatic effect. I also think that making your header link back to your main page is a really helpful feature (I'm definitely going to have to borrow that for my exhibit) that makes your exhibit easier to navigate. Overall, the look of the site is neat and clear, but with a real dramatic punch. I particularly like the use of quotes in a red at the top of some of the pages- it'd be great if you could use one on each page, but I know that's probably a little much.
One general critique- this is almost sacrilegious from a historian's standpoint, but I don't know that the citations are necessary in-text. They disrupt the flow of your narrative a bit, and can be listed in a Bibliography page at the end instead, but it's your call- it could work the way you have it as well.
Now on to the specifics:
1) The Weathermen- a nice overview of the group. I do think that the page would benefit from at least one image, just to liven it up, even if it is more of an introduction page (or you could include "introduction" in the page title to explain that this isn't a regular page). One term that was not clear to me was "Americanism," but if that's explained elsewhere in your exhibit, it should be fine. The sentence about the two members who traveled to Cuba is nice foreshadowing, but it does break up the flow of the paragraph a bit.Otherwise it's a nice introduction to the group that you'll be discussing in this section of pages- thorough and clear (coming from someone who has never heard of these people before).
2) Days of Rage: Some Omeka formatting advice- leave the quote without a picture next to it, and move each of the pictures down one text section. This was a really interesting description of the time period- I thought the differences between the Yippies and the Weathermen in their dealings with the police were highlighted really nicely. There are a couple of wording choices that could be clarified a bit, but I'll try to mention those in person. The images were great complements to the text, though you might want to switch the order so that you don't have both posters in a row.
3) Greenwich Village Townhouse Explosion: Very interesting explanation, with good pictures to go along with it. Again, I'd try moving the pictures down a section for an enhanced appearance. A little more background on local cells of the Weather Underground would be helpful, not just the Fork. I had heard of this townhouse bombing, but I didn't know much about it- I thought you did a great job of making the timeline of events and their aftermath clear.
Overall, the exhibit is beautifully constructed and clear. You also do a really great job of keeping your tone neutral, which is difficult to do when dealing with so much radicalism.
Hi Will,
You might want to bring in some of the radicalism of the Village at the start of the 20th century to help situate the radicals in the 1960s and 1970s better. It would not need to be a lot, but a discussion of the IWW's relations with the Village intellectuals, would help to cement that history in as part of why it happened in the Village.
Cathy Moran Hajo