Category: digital history
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PHP + database + webserver
In a previous post I talked about how an aspiring digital historian might learn some fundamental software technologies applicable to building a dynamic website. Today I’ll try to better explain how those work together to produce web pages. In the simplest kind of website, a person using a browser requests an HTML page by clicking…
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New Antietam virtual tour online
You probably already know Jenny Goellnitz from her Civil War work on the web, notably on the Wheatfield at Gettysburg, troops of Ohio at Gettysburg, Federal Colonel Strong Vincent, and Confederate surgeon Hunter McGuire. Her magnum opus is And Then A.P. Hill Came Up, the premier internet source on the Confederate General. Goellnitz photos: Dunker…
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Tools for putting history online
I’ve been having conversations with someone who wants to put masses of historical information on the web. He’s passionate about the material, but has no experience with web technology. and doesn’t have an IT shop or a CHNM or other academic resources available. He has a late-model Windows PC at home, and is pretty good…
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Turkel/Quiroga history blog survey
I received this as a comment to another post, but thought I’d repackage here in case you don’t catch it elsewhere. If you are a blogger, please give the courtesy of your undivided attention: October / 2006 We are interested in learning more about history blogs and in finding ways to promote them. To aid…
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144 years, exactly
As I was exploring Mansfield Monument Road northeast of Sharpsburg, on the way to the upper bridge last Saturday, I passed two men, each in their own cars, stopped along the road facing the Battlefield. Looked like they were waiting for something. I drove about 100 yards past, and stopped at the high ground on…
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ANB park website redone
I see that the home office has deployed a new standard web design for National Park sites. The Antietam National Battlefield (ANB) Park is among those with the new look. I’ve not found a formal announcement of the change by either the National Park Service (NPS) or the Park. Don’t know why not – the…
