Readings

Required:

Dougherty, Jack, and Kristen Nawrotzki, eds., Writing History in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-472-05206-6 (paperback), 978-0-472-02991-4 (e-book), also freely available online. – WHDA
Weller, Toni, ed. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415666978 (paperback) – HDA

Online:

Allen, Robert B. and Robert Sieczkiewicz, “How Historians Use Historical Newspapers,” (2010).
Bailey, Moya Z. “All the Digital Humanists are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave,” Journal of Digital Humanities (Winter 2011).
Blevins, Cameron, “Martha Ballard’s Diaries,” (4 blog posts), Cameron Blevins, 2009-2010.
Brennan, Timothy, “The Digital-Humanities Bust ,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 15, 2017.
Chandler, Adam. “A Warehouse Fire of Digital Memories,” The Atlantic, Feb. 13, 2015.
Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Becoming Digital,” in Digital History (2006)
Cohen, Dan. “Searching for the Victorians,” Dan Cohen’s Blog, Oct. 4, 2010.
Cordell, Ryan “On What Is Digital History” (video) (May 2018)
Dempsey, Joe, Daniel Hargreaves, Daniel Peacock, Chelsea Lindsey, Dominic Bell, Luc Fontenoy and Heather Williams, “Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth Century London,” Journal of Digital Humanities (Spring 2014).
Denbo, Seth, “Imagining the Digital Monograph,” Perspectives on History, November 2018.
Frankle, Elissa. “More Crowdsourced Scholarship: Citizen History,” Center for the Future of the Museum, July 28, 2011.
Graham, S, I. Milligan, & S. Weingart, “Making Your Data Legible: A Basic Introduction to Visualizations,” The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History (2015).
Hindy, Joseph 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Effectively, Life Hack (August 2018)
Kheraj, Sean, “Best Practices for Writing History on the Web,” Oct. 16, 2014, Active.History.ca.
Leon, Sharon “About the Jesuit Plantation Project,” and “Thinking with Linked Data, Representing History,” [bracket], November 1, 2018.
McKernan, Luke, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, October 16, 2015.
Owens, Trevor. “Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down”, March 10, 2012.
Rosenzweig, Roy, and Dan Cohen. Digital History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. ISBN: 0812219236.
Rubin, Anna Sarah. Accuracy and Authenticity in a Digital City: Slave Streets, Free Streets and the Landscape of Early Baltimore, Perspectives on History, October 7, 2020.
Spiro, Lisa. “This is Why We Fight: Defining Values in the Digital Humanities,” in Matthew Gold, ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2012.
Townsend, Robert. “Historians and the Technologies of Research” Perspectives on History, October 2017.
Anna Vital, “What is an Infographic?” Adioma (June 2018)
Wewers, Dan. A Brief Guide to Writing the History Paper (Harvard Writing Center) 2007.
Laura Zuccioni, Ethan Watrall, Hannah Ueno, and Lisa Rosner, “Pox and the City: Challenges in Writing a Digital History Game,” WHDA, 198-206.

Reserve:

Bodenheimer, David J. “The Spatial Humanities: Space, Time, and Place in the New Digital Age,” in Toni Weller, ed. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415666978 (paperback), pp. 23-38.
Madsen-Brooks, Leslie, “I Am Nevertheless a Historian,” WHDA, 49-63.
McCall, Jeremiah, “Teaching History with Digital Historical Games: An Introduction to the Field and Best Practices,” Simulation and Gaming, May 9, 2016.
Thomas, David and Valerie Johnson. “New Universes or Black Holes? Does Digital Change Anything?” in Toni Weller, ed. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415666978 (paperback), pp. 173-194.
Turkel, William J., Kevin Kee, and Spencer Roberts, “A method for navigating the infinite archive,” in Toni Weller, ed. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415666978 (paperback), pp. 61-75.
Weller, Toni. “Introduction,” in Toni Weller, ed. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415666978 (paperback), pp. 1-19.

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