Announcements:

• Center for Reading and Writing

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React to Perusall

What is Digital History?

• Main takeaways from reading? – Can we come up with a definition?
• Difference between traditional history and digital history?
• Will this divide between traditional and digital history/humanities remain?
• Challenges of doing digital history?
• What skills are needed?

Varieties of History Sites

Historical Blogs/Podcasts

• 100 Awesome Blogs for History Junkies
• Stuff You Missed in History Class
• Bowery Boys-New York City History

Archival Presentations

• Douglass Papers
• Martha Ballard’s Diary
• Teenie Harris Archive
• National Archives Digital Vault – fancier!

Thematic Research Collections

• Whitman Archive
• Rosetti Archive
  • Correspondence
  • Exhibit
• Jane Addams Papers

Audio and Video Collections

• Presidential Recordings Project
  • Kicking Nixon
  • Little Lounge
• Telling their Stories
• Museum of the Moving Image – Living Room Candidate
• Mike Wallace Interviews

Digital Exhibits

• American During the 1918 Flu Epidemic
• American Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War
• The Masses
• The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Educational Sites

• Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
• Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Database Driven Collections

• Chronicling America (LC National Newspaper Archive)
• Ellis Island

Interpretive

• Robert Cohen’s “Student Activism in the 1930s”
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
• Gilded Age Plains City
• Imaging the French Revolution-collaboration

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Blog Topics

Next class, each student will select three events to blog about for the Discovering 1919 website.

Details on the assignment

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