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Ghosts over the Water: How we designed a historical video game that takes players into 19th century Japan

Humanizing Great Mother Russia: “Ekaterina” on Amazon Prime

Humanizing Great Mother Russia: “Ekaterina” on Amazon Prime

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

Coding Viceregal Art: Project Arca and Spanish Visual Culture Within the Digital Humanities

Coding Viceregal Art: Project Arca and Spanish Visual Culture Within the Digital Humanities

The Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An Introduction to the Work of Christina Wasson

The Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An Introduction to the Work of Christina Wasson

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

Digital Archive Review: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

The Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory O’Malley and Alex Borucki

The Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory O’Malley and Alex Borucki

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Film Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel

Film Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel

Digital Archive Review: Visualizing Cultures

Digital Archive Review: The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA)

Digital Archive Review: The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA)

Digital Archive Review: The Louvre Museum

Film Review: La Llorona, Directed by Jayro Bustamante

It’s all Connected: Introducing Filmmaker Adam Curtis

Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

Digital Archive Review: Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera

Digital Archive Review: Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Resources

Digital Tools for Studying Empire: Transcription and Text Analysis with Transkribus

Digital Archive Review – Imágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia

Film Review – Jojo Rabbit (Dir: Taika Waititi, 2019)

Digital Archive Review – Ticha: A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec

Digital Archive Review – Más de 72

Digital Archive – Rising From the Ashes: The Oklahoma Eagle and its Long Road to Preservation

Film Review – Ayka (Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy, 2018)

Digital Archive Review – Authorship and Advocacy: The Native American Petitions Dataverse

Digital Resources – “The Reddest of the Blacks”

Between King and People: Digital Tools for Studying Empire

Play Review – Monroe by Lisa B. Thompson (2018)

Film Review – Dazed and Confused (Dir: Linklater, 1993)

Film Review – The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Dir: Desiree Akhavan, 2018)

Of How a Hopi Ancient Word Became a Famous Experimental Film

Faces of Migration: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Faces of Migration: Lone Star

Faces of Migration: Lamerica

Faces of Migration: Moi, Un Noir

Faces of Migration: Take Out

Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films

Movie poster of the movie Marshall: Live Hard. Fight Harder featuring Chadwick Boseman

Historical Perspectives on Marshall (dir: Reginal Hudlin, 2017)

Legacies of the Vietnam War

Nature Boy, 30 for 30 (directed by Rory Karpf, 2017)

Poster of the keynote speakers for The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917

Watch: The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917 (Part II)

Movie poster of the movie of A View From The Bridge

Film Review – A View From the Bridge (Directed by Sidney Lumet, 1962)

Poster of the keynote speakers for The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917

Watch: The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917 (Part I)

The Battle of Chile

Victoria & Abdul: Simulacra & Simulation

Mapping & Microbes: The New Archive (No. 22)

Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films

Virtual Auschwitz

The Prague Spring Archive Project

Before Hamilton

Digital Learning: Starting from Scratch

Historical Perspectives on The Birth of a Nation (2016)

The Enemy Within: Cold War History in FX’s The Americans

Chan is Missing (1982)

Historical Perspectives on Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

Quilombola activists at a demonstration against proposed construction of hydroelectric dams on the Ribeira de Iguape River in Adrianópolis, Paraná

The Public Historian: Quilombola Seeds

Screening Vietnam: First Blood and Jaws

Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos

Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)

Historical Perspectives on Isao Takahata’s Grave of Fireflies

Honest Abe’s Archive: The New Archive (No. 21)

From the Humanities to the Digital Humanities: The New Archive (No. 20)

A Graphic Revolution: The New Archive (No. 19)

Colón 2000: Tour Guides, Cruiseships, and Tourists in Panama

Digital History: Resources

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

Digital Visualization Workshop, Venice 2014: The New Archive (No. 17)

“Oh this learning, what a thing it is!”: The New Archive (No. 16)

Historical Perspectives on Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013)

Has Texas Seen its Last Liberal?

California’s Gold Rush in Pictures: The New Archive (No. 15)

Seeing John Donne Speak: The New Archive (No. 14)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

Hearing the Roaring Twenties: The New Archive (No. 12)

Harper’s Weekly’s Portrayal of the Civil War: The New Archive (No. 11)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Radio Free Europe: The New Archive (No. 9)

An Emotional Database: The New Archive (No. 8)

Hungary 1956. Crimea 2014? The New Archive (No. 7)

Sound Maps: The New Archive (No. 6)

iTunes Remembers Black History: The New Archive (No. 5)

I am Tourism/Yo Soy Turismo

History in Motion: The New Archive (No. 4)

History Made Magic: The Scrapbooks of Harry Houdini Come Alive

Visualizing Emancipation(s): Mapping The End of Slavery in America

A Rebellion Remembered: The Irish Easter Rising’s New Digital Archive

“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”

I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)

42 (2013)

Digital History: A Primer (Part 2)

Digital History: A Primer (Part 1)

The Sapphires (2012)

Pinching and Swiping, or How I Won the Digital War

Why is Anne Hathaway So Sad? The History Behind “Les Misérables” (2012)

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)

Elevate (2012)

What’s Missing from ‘Argo’ (2012)

A Historian Views Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012)

“You have died of dysentery” – History According to Video Games

Movie poster of the movie The Descendants

The Invisible History of Hawaii in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants”

For Greater Glory (2012)

Twitter for Historians

Movie poster of the movie MoneyBall

Film Review – Baseball by the Numbers: Moneyball (2011)

Film Review – A Separation (2011)

Footnote (2011)

African American History Online

Movie poster of the movie Camila: Love Against All Odds

Camila (1984)

Movie poster of the movie J. Edgar

J. Edgar (2011)

Movie poster of the movie When the Mountains Tremble: The Astonishing Story of Rigoberta Menchú, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Two documentaries on Guatemala’s violent civil war

Movie poster of the movie Amigo

Film Review – Amigo (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Sankofa, A Haile Gerima Film

Sankofa (1993)

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002)

Old movie poster for the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Present in the Past: Ohio State’s website

Lend-Lease Live: The Video

Twitter for Historians, or #twitterstorians

Life and Nothing But (1989)

Flickers of the Past

The Help

Day of Wrath (1943)

Hollywood’s Brazil: Rio (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Vatel

Death and Decadence: Vatel (2000)

Movie poster of the movie The Shop on Main Street

Everyday Crimes: The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Movie poster of the movie How Green Was My Valley

Small Towns and Big Dreams

Sounds of the Past

Thurgood (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Johnny Tremain: He Answered Freedom's Call

Rebel With a Cause: Johnny Tremain (1957)

I am Twenty (1961, released 1964)

Cynical Realism: Miller’s Crossing by Joel and Ethan Coen (1990)

Movie poster of the movie Memories of Underdevelopment

The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba

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