According to the University of Richmond historian Ed Ayers, “the sudden transition to online schooling has shone a light on the state of digital history.” He adds: “What we’ve seen hasn’t been very encouraging. Can we do better?” Here is...
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Pandemic Religion
John Turner, a religion professor at George Mason University, introduces us to a very interesting new digital archive called Pandemic Religion. Over at The Anxious Bench, Turner introduces us to this new database: Two months ago, Lincoln Mullen (my colleague at George...
Loyalist Migration: A New Digital Resource
Check out Tim Compeau‘s post at Borealia on a new project that will visualize the movement of men and women displaced by the American Revolution. A taste: Loyalist Migrations is a collaboration between Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the United Empire...
Digitizing New England Church Records
Here is Jeff Cooper at the blog of the American Antiquarian Society: For the past fifteen years, New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH), a project of the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, has sought to locate, digitize, transcribe, and publish online New...
Do You Know About the Digital Harrisburg Project?
The Digital Harrisburg Initiative continues to roll on at Messiah College. My colleagues are happy to announce the recent publication of an entire issue of Pennsylvania History journal devoted to the project. It contains essays by Messiah College faculty, students, and others...
Are “once robust” humanities fields being “broken up and stripped for parts?
Carnegie Mellon literary critic Jeffrey J. Williams writes about hybrid fields such as digital humanities, environmental humanities, food humanities, medical humanities, legal humanities, business humanities, and public humanities. He calls these fields “The New Humanities.” Here is a taste of...
Interpreting the Billy and Helen Sunday Home
Since Messiah College started the Digital Harrisburg Initiative a few years ago, I have developed a real appreciation for digital and public history projects at small colleges and universities. In 2011, I spent a day at Grace College in Winona...
Digital Humanities and Your Vita
Will experience, expertise or interest in digital humanities help you land an academic job? In the Fall, my department will be conducting a search for a public historian. While the ability to do digital history will not be one of...
Bonus Episode: Live at Messiah College Educator’s Day
On May 21, 2018, the Office of the Provost at Messiah College surprised the faculty at their annual Educator’s Day with a live recording of our podcast. Under the theme “Flourishing in a Digital World,” the goal was to highlight...
How are People Using the Digital Harrisburg Initiative?
Digital Harrisburg is a digital public humanities project created by students and faculty of Messiah College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology that explores the history and culture of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. Read more about it here. Over...
Our First Live Episode of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast is in the Books!
This morning we recorded our first live episode of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast before the Community of Educators (faculty and co-curricular educators) at Messiah College. The Community of Educators gathered today at “Educator’s Day,” a tradition in...
Welcome Messiah College Community of Educators!
When this post appears on the blog (9:50am on Monday, May 20, 2018) I will be sitting with Drew Dyrli Hermeling on the magnificent stage of Parmer Hall at Messiah College hosting a special episode of The Way of Improvement...
The American Indian Digital History Project
This is a very cool digital project focused on recovering and preserving “rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival material from all across Native North America. Learn more about it here. HT: Gretchen Adams via Facebook...
Check Out the University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab
From the Imperial and Global Forum blog: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzqRyM934u8&w=560&h=315] ...
Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
Over at Uncommon Sense, Elizabeth Losh of the American Studies Department at William & Mary reports on an upcoming conference: The Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association is committed to working across “the various areas of digital humanities,” including but not limited...
Historian Edward Ayers
Ed Ayers is a Civil War-era historian and a “pioneer” in the field of digital humanities. After 27 years teaching history at the University of Virginia, he served eight years as the president of the University of Richmond. He currently...
Tracking Martin Luther on a Digital Map
The Newberry Library has produced a digital map that traces the “Luther Affair” through time and space. You can explore it here....
Live Tweeting a Historical Event
Over at Northwest History, Eastern Washington University public historian Larry Cebula writes about how he and some local historians conducted a Twitter re-enactment of Spokane’s 1889 fire. According to his post, several folks got together with historical documents and began...
Library of Congress Places 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online
This is huge. We uses these maps for our Digital Harrisburg Project at Messiah College. Here is a taste of the press release: The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure...
Why Computer Scientists Should "Stop Hating" the Humanities
This issue keeps coming up. Yesterday during a faculty meeting I listened to a colleague explain digital humanities to a group of more traditional-minded humanists. He discussed the digital humanities as an effort to bridge the divide between computer scientists and humanistic inquiry....