Category: digital history
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Where the Digital History rubber meets the road
Perhaps the title of this post should be Hardcore Digital History. Englishman Bill Torrens is working on a project to create biographical sketches for each of the officers below the rank of Brigadier General who served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) during the American Civil War. He’s been at this for over…
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Pimping the History web?
If you’re doing high quality history (or related commentary, technology, criticism, publishing) online, should you also host advertising? I don’t think so. I believe advertising detracts in a number of ways, and doesn’t return enough to compensate. I’m referring to the ubiquitous Google targeted ads, Amazon, B&N, and other shopping and “affiliate” programs, DVD vendors,…
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Carnival! Carnival!
A belated thanks to history hacker William Turkel for posting a Roundup of Digital History Blogs, this one among them. I’m humbled by the company. There were a number I hadn’t seen before: all the more to keep up with, I guess. A pleasant burden. I’ve updated my blog links to add several for routine…
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More on Moses Luce, late Sergeant, 4th Michigan Infantry
I’m having too much fun pulling the string on one of my guys: Moses Luce of the 4th Michigan. I mentioned him in an earlier post about his alma mater, Hillsdale College. I got a great email from Hillsdale’s archivist, Linda Moore, with some quotes, a new photo, and a pointer to the college newspaper.…
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Geek Speak
I am pleased to see Laurie’s “This Week in the Blogs” survey on CWi. Thanks to Drew for putting the word out. It’s great to see how an outside reader sees what we do. It’ll probably help new readers find us, too. In the inaugural edition Laurie notes that, in commenting on the JFK Library…
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JFK papers, photos to go online
Big news for practitioners and proponents of Digital History: the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum yesterday announced a massive project to digitize and make available online all of the millions of documents, images, and audio and video recordings in their collection. See more in the Press Release. Being one of the twelve such…