My adventures in digital history.
These are my remarks as written (if not exactly as delivered) in Paul Harvey's history seminar at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs this morning: I recently wrote an…
Get your side hustle off.
I've been streaming a lot of Simpsons with my son lately. Backwards. Since I quit watching the show regularly sometime in the late-90s, this was the best way that we…
Digital History Projects – Fall 2015.
These are the links to the projects from my first Introduction to Digital History class this semester: Colorado State Hospital Ludlow Massacre The Mineral Palace Mines of the Colorado Fuel…
He lost me at “scale.”
I don't know the historian Steve Mintz, but I do know he's a pioneer in putting all kinds of historical resources online. This means he was doing what we now…
My adventures teaching digital history.
I've had an absolutely terrible semester. The reason was/still is for one more week my fourth class. Like one of those self-destructive overworked academics who my friend Kate describes so…
“I want to break free.”
So apparently I've driven Michael Feldstein to drink. I, for one, think the quality of his post is worth the cost (but then again it's not my liver that's involved).…
“Every man, woman and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about de-evolution.”
I have to admit that I became much more fond of Clay Shirky the moment that I found out that he occasionally reads this blog (or at least the last…
DH as self-defense.
If you're interested in what I was doing for most of this month, you can read about it here. [Yes, I'm the goofball wearing a baseball cap in the back…
Digital history? Moi?
Here at "Doing Digital History" in lovely Arlington, Virginia we're currently working on ways to design and justify our respective digital history projects and courses at our home institutions. I'm…
Icebox v. refrigerator.
Our DH seminar homework for tonight is to write a brief blog post considering how we might use text mining in our upcoming digital history projects. Unfortunately for me, a…
