Clik here to view.
Review: Placing History (III)
(This is the third installment of my review of Placing History. See the first and the second parts.) I’ve finally finished Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical...
View ArticleScattered Links – 8/21/2008
Lisa Spiro has posted a great recap of her presentation “Doing Digital Scholarship” at the Digital Humanities 2008 conference. The presentation “focuses on a project to practice digital scholarship by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Towards a “History This” Command Line
Mozilla Labs recently released the 0.1 version of Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that allows the user to interact with and direct their browser through intuitive, written commands. Ubiquity has met with...
View ArticleMethodologies and the (Digital) History Major
Stanley N. Katz and James Grossman recently led a working group backed by the National History Center and the Teagle Foundation, and drafted a thought-provoking report titled, The History Major and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scattered Links – 3/16/2009
I’ve been closely following the history blogging roundtable examining Judith Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism. Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar kicked things off with...
View ArticleAAHC Recap (Morning)
Today I attended the American Association for Historical Computing‘s 2009 annual conference, hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. For someone interested in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Dissertation’s Infancy: The Geography of the Post
A history PhD can be thought of as a collection of overlapping areas: coursework, teaching, qualifying exams, and the dissertation itself. The first three are fairly structured. You have syllabi,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Making Numbers Legible
What do you do with numbers? I mean this in the context of writing, not research. How do you incorporate quantitative evidence into your writing in a way that makes it legible for your readers? I’ve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Postal Geography and the Golden West
I want to tell you a story. It’s a story about gold, the American West, and the way we narrate history. But first let me explain why I’m telling you this story. I’m in the midst of writing a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Perpetual Sunrise of Methodology
[The following is the text of a talk I prepared for a panel discussion about authoring digital scholarship for history with Adeline Koh, Lauren Tilton, Yoni Appelbaum, and Ed Ayers at the 2015 American...
View ArticleClik here to view.
American Panorama: Part II
This is the second half of a review of American Panorama (you can read Part I here). Together, the two posts are a follow-up to my earlier call for digital historians to more actively engage with the...
View Article
