The past is never dead. It's not even past
On 29 February 2024, Dr Nick Kapur from Rutgers delivered an important and fascinating talk at the Institute for Historical Studies. The talk was entitled “Participatory Crisis Archiving: The Japan Disasters Digital Archive”. The origins of The Japan Disasters Digital Archive lie in the catastrophic events of March 2011. On the afternoon of 11 March […]
For fans of any movie or television show shot on location, there’s always a thrill when visiting, in person, the same places your favorite characters have been. Fans often share the locations in blogs or other forums, and metropolises like New York and Los Angeles have tours that take you to where famous scenes from […]
Historians take a lot of notes, especially when it comes to our primary sources. For those of us who are fortunate enough to have access to digitized sources, our notes keep a record of our thoughts on the material in question and its use in our research. For those using sources that are not digitized […]
Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, has become increasingly popular with historians because of its ability to visually present information and arguments that would otherwise be difficult to explain in text. However, not all history can be assigned a nine-digit number and placed on a map. “Loosening the Grid: Ideas for Mapping Human Experience,” the keynote […]