What gets built here
Below are a few examples of websites built with Amaranth and Xanthan templates. They show the range of work that can live well on the open web: class projects, portfolios, ScrollStories, workshop proceedings, and public research. Get in touch if you have a project taking shape.
Campus Histories
- Multi-semester project — each cohort builds on what previous students made
- UNM site styling baked in via Xanthan
- Card-based navigation through individual building histories
A Cultural History of Arkham Asylum
- Dense visual narrative with many layered images
- Shows how cultural criticism can work as a scroll-driven experience
- Complex interplay of text, image, and pacing
Metahistory
- Spans multiple courses and years of student contributions
- Permanent left sidebar with auto-generated table of contents
- New pages picked up automatically as students add them
The Silk Road
- Object pages with images, metadata, and interpretive essays
- Thematic essays connecting multiple objects and historical patterns
- Map-based view of places and materials connected through exchange
Farming the Middle Rio Grande
- Farmer profiles combining oral history interviews and student-written web pages
- Cross-course collaboration between qualitative methods and local food systems courses
- Recordings archived in the UNM Digital Repository
Medieval Elite Marriages
- Each page centers on a single historical artifact
- Shows how material objects can anchor historical argument
Santa Fe Trail Sites
- Map integration with linked individual location pages
- Geographic navigation as the primary entry point
- Still running without maintenance after nearly a decade
Histories of the Future
- Workshop proceedings preserved as a permanent public site
- Shows how event output can have lasting web presence