Donald Trump’s current budget proposal will eliminate government funding for the humanities. This means that local communities and American citizens will need to come up with other ways to fund programs like this: If you teach or write about slavery...
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Mapping American Religious History in the City
I spent some time playing with this mapping project today. Here is a description:This is an interactive bibliography of books published about religious history in a particular American city. Its aim is to show where historians of American religion have...
What is Going On With Digital Harrisburg?
A lot.I have been on sabbatical this semester so I am not privy to a lot of the day-to-day activity in the Messiah College History Department‘s Digital Harrisburg Initiative. That is why I am thankful for the regular blog updates from the...
The Next “Librarian of Congress” Should Be a Librarian
This is the argument of Portland Community College librarian Meredeth Farkas in a piece at The New Republic.Farkas chides outgoing Librarian of Congress James Billington for, among other things, not modernizing the Library and bringing it fully into the digital world.She writes:President...
More Good News About the Digital Harrisburg Initiative
As I have written here before, Messiah College hosts the Digital Harrisburg Initiative, a digital project that is trying to understand early 20th-century Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Read our coverage here).M. Diane McCormick has written a very thorough piece about the project...
What is Digital Scholarship?
Valley of the Shadow is TRC For those of us who are still trying to discern the kinds of online work that qualifies as “digital scholarship,” William Thomas, the chair of the history department at the University of Nebraska, has […]
Job Opening: Ancient-Digital History at Bethel University
My friend Chris Gehtz, aka “The Pietest Schoolman,” has just announced a very interesting job opening at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. Bethel is looking to start a digital humanities major and they hope to hire a coordinator...
Erin Bartram’s Busy Day at AHA 2015
Erin Bartram is back. As some of you read this, Erin will be presenting at American Society of Church History session “American Religion Online: How Digital Projects Can Change How We Teach, Research, and Interpret Religious History.” I am looking...
More From Christian James on the Digital History and Library/Archive Front
New York Public Library For Christian’s previous AHA 2015 post click here.–JF Later Friday, I attended two panels about important historical research issues in the digital era. The first, Session #42: “Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication,” presented case...
Christian James: On the Archive Beat on Day One of AHA 2015
National Archives Building I am happy to have Christian James with us this weekend. Christian is a digital historian and archivist currently working on an MLS degree. He will be covering some of the sessions related to his field of […]
Is There a Difference Between Digital History and Digital Humanities?
Stephen Robertson is the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. In a recent post at his blog, he laments the fact that recent conversation about the digital humanities, particularly Adam Kirsch’s […]
Digital Humanities, Information Fluency, and the Digital Harrisburg Project
Yesterday I wrote a post called “A New Kind of History Department” to explain some of the ways the digital history initiatives we have stared at Messiah College are connected to the larger vision of the Messiah College History Department....
Digital Public Library of America Lands Large Grant
Press release from the DPLA website: BOSTON — The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today $594,000 in new funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research potential sustainability models and to pursue the most promising option (or...
Tweets from William Pannapacker Lecture at Messiah College
Here are my tweets from last night’s William Pannapacker lecture at Messiah College on digital humanities and the liberal arts. It was an excellent introduction to the field of digital humanities. For more tweets check out #dhmessiah on Twitter. In...
Live Tweeting Bill Pannapacker’s Lecture at Messiah College
Pannapacker is here lecturing on the digital humanities and the liberal arts. Read more about it here. Follow at @johnfea1. I will use the hashtag #dhmessiah...
William Pannapacker at Messiah College
If you are in the area, stop by at Messiah College on Thursday night to hear a public lecture on the digital humanities from Hope College English professor William Pannapacker. I first started reading Pannapacker’s essays in The Chronicle of...
Maps of the Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians
Compliments of Betsy Emmons at MapStory. http://mapstory.org/maps/726/embed http://mapstory.org/maps/755/embed...
Class-Sourcing as a Teaching Strategy
Gleb Tsipursky, assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Newark Campus, has been trying out something new with the students in his history classes. Instead of assigning research papers, Tsipursky assigns class-sourcing projects where students create “publicly accessible online digital artifacts,...
Digital History Workshop at 2014 AHA Conference
If you plan on arriving early to the 2014 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, consider attending the preconference digital workshop. There will be panels on MOOCs, social media, digital history for beginners, project management, teaching digital history, text […]
Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age
G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian, talks about his new free e-book, Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvpBXoDN64]...