Public historians face several challenges when they think about the relationship between the content of their projects and the audiences that will experience them, which academic historians focused on classroom
Feedback from potential users of a proposed digital history project on Western Illinois’ Underground RailroadFeedback from potential users of a proposed digital history project on Western Illinois’ Underground Railroad
I’m thinking of a digital history projects that develops an open-access website that maps various kinds of evidence of the Western Illinois region’s underground railroad history and its possible ties
Review of the Western Illinois Museum physical and digital sitesReview of the Western Illinois Museum physical and digital sites
The Western Illinois Museum physical site, 201 South Lafayette Street, Macomb, Illinois The Western Illinois Museum takes its title from an area that historically was termed the Military Tract, comprised
The relationship between audience and content in public history projectsThe relationship between audience and content in public history projects
Historically, historians working in universities looked askance on individuals who worked in government service, museums, and parks – places today recognized as public history sites (Dichtl and Townsend, Figure 1)
Why I’m in the George Mason University digital public history program – 2nd versionWhy I’m in the George Mason University digital public history program – 2nd version
I teach history at a comprehensive university in the Midwest. I’ve written and edited three books, focused on, respectively, early American foreign relations, the history of American exceptionalism, and the
Struggles with my very first digital history project: using Omeka to map a Civil War soldier’s lettersStruggles with my very first digital history project: using Omeka to map a Civil War soldier’s letters
In my proposal I wished to create a project, now titled “A Yankee Soldier’s Struggle with the Union Cause,” offering a digital representation of letters written by a Civil War
A Civil War Letters Project’s Social Media StrategyA Civil War Letters Project’s Social Media Strategy
One audience is scholars interested in digital and visual representations of historical documents. This audience may be reached using Twitter and blogging. I wish to illustrate an example of a
What Can You Do With Crowdsourced Digitization?What Can You Do With Crowdsourced Digitization?
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
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 retrospective on using Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio to understand a WPA narratives data setA retrospective on using Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio to understand a WPA narratives data set
Introduction to digital tools involves reading about and experimenting with text mining, mapping, and network visualization. The purpose of these tools is to invite the researcher to study texts differently