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...
digitial history
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...
Digital Humanities is Not Primarily About Data
At Messiah College we have started a “digital humanities working group.” The group includes teacher-scholars with expertise in history, English, film studies, computer science, digital media, foreign languages, religion, and politics. We spent much of last semester reading some introductory […]
Preparing for Grafton
Needless to say, we in the Messiah College History Department and those associated with the NEH-funded Messiah College Center for Public Humanities are very exciting to be spending a few days in February with Anthony Grafton, a professor of history […]
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Back in 1994, Roy Rosenzweig founded the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The goal was to “use digital media and computer technology to democratize history.” Rosenzweig died after a battle with cancer in 2007. Last […]
A Graduate Student’s Digital Toolbox
Over at Northwest History, Larry Cebula has assembled a list of digital tools and resources that all graduate students in history should be familiar with. The list includes: Google Books, Zotero, Dropbox, and Twitter. Professor Cebula is asking for help […]
The Lazy Scholar Takes a Digitial Tour of Pennsylvania History
The Lazy Scholar has started a series called “The Divided States of America” in which he virtually travels throughout the country calling our attention to various digital history collections. Here’s how the Lazy Scholar describes the series: But how did,...
Digital History
My friend Phil, the Bald Blogger, has a nice post on “digital history.” He quotes from a recent Journal of American History essay by William Thomas and the work of historian Steven Mintz, one of the leaders in this field....