Everyone’s secret information friend, Wikipedia, emphasizes the commercial aspects of crowdsourcing, but lately crowdsourced digitization has become a powerful tool for humanities organizations to obtain valuable digitizing work from the
Category: Public history & historical thinking
How to read a Wikipedia articleHow to read a Wikipedia article
To prescribe how to approach reading and relying on a Wikipedia article is a bit of an academic exercise, since I would never really encourage someone, especially a student, to
A definition of digital humanities (DH)A definition of digital humanities (DH)
DH uses and builds technologies in a way to encourage interdisciplinary study of textual and other records of the human experience, involving scholars and the public collaboratively. Although many DH
Why I’m in the George Mason University digital public history program-1st versionWhy I’m in the George Mason University digital public history program-1st version
I am a professor of American history at Western Illinois University, where I have taught undergraduate and graduate students for ten years in both traditional and online settings. I was