Category: digital history

Pass the word: The Mason Basketball Digital Memory Bank is now live at http://hoops.gmu.edu. … As Patriot hoops make history, our historians are helping fans become a part of the story. By posting online their memories and media files of this momentous run to the Final Four, fans around the world can become a part…

In a mini-rant on one of the ACW boards yesterday, a publisher of an excellent website raged about someone stealing and re-posting his “copyrighted” photographs from the site. The alleged perpetrator was characterized in vulgar terms. All of these online photos, as far as I can tell, were created during the 1860s, and the pictures…

Back in September, Jeremy Boggs asked how historians use or should use footnotes on the web. A brief discussion of when they’re useful and what they should contain followed. Coincidentally, I had just recently finished the database structure and some basic code to process references and citations on AotW for that very purpose. Jeremy’s entry…