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Category: digital history

  • Problems in Digital History 1 (scope)

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    OK, so what do I think Digital History is, exactly? Digital History (DH) is a subset of the field of History the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events in which historical information is discovered or created, stored, published, distributed, and/or consumed on interconnected (networked) computers. The products should be universally available and…

  • On ACW blogging and AotW

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    Covering some odds and ends, prompted by my Internet Friends … On the community blogging the American Civil War Joe Avalon has just posted a listing of Civil War-related blogs on his venerable Civil War Interactive site (tip from Drew). Joe already has the preeminent set of recommended ACW web links at Link Central –…

  • Problems in Digital History (Intro)

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    If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work –R. W. Hamming William Turkel has taken Dr Dick Hamming’s challenge*, elegantly condensed by Paul Graham as What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t you? and begun to apply it to his view of the…

  • Digital history iceberg, tip of

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    There must be something in the air. With a range of ideas and dotted with many fine links and teasers, William J. Turkel of the great white north has posted, in a piece called Methodology for the Infinite Archive, comments on some of the challenges in the r/evolution that may be Digital History. “… So…

  • The future of ACW publishing

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    Dimitri Rotov has posted a pre-manifesto on what American Civil War (ACW) historians might be doing in the realm of web publishing their work. Published history which is innovative and insightful does not necessarily sell. The popular swill based on the same tired cliches sells rather better. As a result, most people get their history…

  • How long til New Media isn’t?

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    In a post on Future of the Book, Ray Cha reported discussion among a group of history educators using New Media* to help teach and study American history. These are people who have pushed the envelope; some for many years. At least one of them has helped invent the field of Digital History. “Almost immediately,…