Geek Speak
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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… >> continue reading
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JFK papers, photos to go online
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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… >> continue reading
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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,… >> continue reading
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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).… >> continue reading
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Fine day in Western Maryland
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in the historySharpsburg claims one of the original Memorial Day parades in the United States. Begun soon after the war as Decoration Day, the celebration was to honor the soldiers of the Civil War … Later … the parade drew thousands of… >> continue reading
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Go Chargers
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I’m sorry to say I’d never heard of Hillsdale College until last week. My loss. In south-central Michigan, Hillsdale was a hotbed of liberal thought, abolitionism, and Unionist sentiment in mid-19th Century America. Because of its dedication to the principle… >> continue reading