Website Review: Latin American Visuals Online Repository
Latin American Visuals Online Repository http://aulav.wrlc.org/ Created and maintained by the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University and the American University Library...
View ArticleReadings: Research in the Digital Age
There is no doubt that the rise of digital technology has changed the nature of research and scholarship, and saying so has become almost cliché. Of course, the main question is how. The introductory...
View ArticleResearch in the Digital Age, Creative Assignments – Lindsey
Create an Interactive Story I chose to create the interactive story “A Journey from Freedman’s Village” around life in Arlington County Virginia for African Americans at the turn of the last century....
View ArticleResearch in the Digital Age, Readings – Lindsey
In their article “Web of Lies” Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig discuss how historians have long been hesitant about doing scholarly research online. This is because they feel that the web has many sites...
View ArticleReflections on research in the digital age
As someone who teaches college survey courses, a remark from the Cohen and Rosenzweig piece instantly caught my attention. The authors were paraphrasing GMU Provost Peter Stearns on his proposal to...
View ArticleResearch in the Digital Age
I was having a conversation recently with another person in the PhD program in History here at Mason about how we are in a sort of digital bubble. Doing “digital” for the students in the Department of...
View ArticleOn Researching in the Digital Age
The readings on research in digital age cover a number of issues about what distinguishes research today from years past, but I think the authors also look at an important part of research, and that is...
View ArticleInteractive Story
I did my interactive story about archival research in the digital age. It probably reveals my bias towards my own method, but I tried to be fair to people who make other choices. And yes, I did leave...
View ArticleDigital History Creative Assignments
Inklewriter Story After the looking at the websites for both tools, I decided to use Inklewriter because it appeared to be easier to set up and use than Inform7. I created a story based on someone...
View ArticleHistory Website Review: The Junto
The Junto is a group history blog focusing on Early America, written and run by junior faculty and graduate students, which launched in December 2012. All seventeen of the regular contributors blog...
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