digital history

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/19/19
  

  Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital age

  by Ian Milligan

  Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow. 

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• 6/16/19
  

  Make History Accessible: The Case for YouTube

  by Rohit Kandala

  Youtube presents a great opportunity for both professional history educators and amateurs to enhance the public’s interest in history. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Digital Way to Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era

  The Civil Rights activists faced violence in multiple cities in their fight for equality.

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• 4/28/19
  

  The Notre-Dame Fire and Digital Preservation

  by Deirdre Ryan

  We have the technology in hand to preserve what is most precious to our past. Our challenge is to make this a priority. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  4/22/19
  

  New Website aims to preserve Detroit’s civil rights history

  Rise Up Detroit is scheduled to officially launch with a kickoff event May 14 at Wayne State’s David Adamany Undergraduate Library. The program is expected to include a discussion with civil rights veterans and experts.

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• 4/21/19
  

  Civil War History Brought to Life

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  "What better, than to see in motion, the very people or places you are reading about."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/9/19
  

  Obama’s Presidential Library Is Already Digital

  by Dan Cohen

  The question now is how to leverage its nature to make it maximally useful and used.

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• SOURCE: CSU History Department
  3/13/19
  

  WATCH LIVE ONLINE: From Silent Sam to Phnom Pehn: Monuments and Memorials in History and Myth

  Information on a live online history lecture. Watch on March 13th!

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• 2/24/19
  

  What Can the Humanities Teach Us About Big Data?

  by Jo Guldi

  The "Critical Search" techniques of Big Data uncover the nuances and patterns of the past in the Humanities.

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• SOURCE: Colorado State University
  4-21-17 (accessed)
  

  Professor uses role-playing, video game to teach history

  Robert Jordan’s digital history course at Colorado State University is not like any other history class.

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- University of Washington
  1-8-16
  

  History meets geography: James Gregory's collaborative digital project tracks key 20th century social movements

  The project has the three-part goal of developing geographic data about social movements, producing such visualizations as interactive maps and charts, and providing analysis and interpretation of the data they present.

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• SOURCE: AHA Blog
  9-9-15
  

  AHA says digital scholarship should receive academic credit -- And here's how

  by Seth Denbo

  To encourage giving proper credit to academics doing digital history the AHA has published Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-8-14
  

  Digital History Center Strives to Connect With the Public

  The center’s scholars strive to capture the voices of historical actors not traditionally represented in archives, like slaves and American Indians, through projects that map the past and involve the public in analyzing historical data.

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• SOURCE: Stephen Robertson (blog)
  5-23-14
  

  The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities

  by Stephen Robertson

  So what are the differences between digital history and ‘dh’/digital literary studies? In the current landscape in the US, broadly speaking, two stand out.

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• 3-10-14
  

  Five Things You Need to Know to be a Better Digital Preservationist

  by Victoria Torres

  Handy tips for the aspiring archivist/digital preservationist. (Increasingly, they're becoming one and the same!)

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-19-14
  

  Tales of an Indiscriminate Tool Adopter

  by Michelle Moravec

  How to do a twelve-week digital humanities on the cheap.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-11-14
  

  Online Exhibit Tracks Books Saved by the Real-Life Monuments Men

  Just in time for the new movie, the Center for Jewish History has released a Flickr collection dedicated to the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-4-14
  

  Israel brings Dead Sea scrolls to life with upgrade of digital archive

  Website includes 10,000 new images, more manuscript descriptions and translated content, and a faster search engine.

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  1-27-14
  

  AHA sets up committee on professional evaluation of digital scholarship

  The committee will establish evaluation standards.

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• 1-27-14
  

  Why I Despise @HistoryInPics

  by Sarah Werner

  @HistoryInPics and similar Twitter streams post “old” pictures and little tidbits of captions for them. That's it. No attribution, no link, no context, and a casual relationship to the truth.