Digital History: Resources

Would you like to learn more about Digital History?

Don’t know where to start?

Here are some ideas:

1. General Books:

• Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web (2006)
• Roy Rosenzweig, Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age(2011)
• Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, eds. Writing History in the Digital Age (2012)
• Toni Weller, History in the Digital Age (2013).
• Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Schienfeldt, eds., Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from the Digital Humanities(2013)
• Matthew K. Gold, editor, Debates in the Digital Humanities (website version) and book version

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  From Ben Schmidt’s blog

2. Data Visualization.

• Mia Ridge’s DV workshop. There are many good intros, but this one includes ways to teach DV in the classroom.
• Free tools for DV (one of many sources: here’s another)
• Ben Schmidt’s Historical Data Visualizations (and his blog, one of the best for learning about what you can do with D for H)
• Caleb McDaniels’ Digital History Tools

        3. A couple Digital History projects

• Digital History at Stanford: one of the pioneers in digital history projects, mostly mapping.
• Vincent Brown, Slave Revolt in Jamaica
• The New Archive on Not Even Past (articles on interesting digital projects)
• Maria José Afanador-Llach recounted her experiences at the Digitalization Workshop in Venice

4. “Keep up!” Follow Recent Developments in DH.

• Digital Humanities Now (another project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason. Here is the center’s homepage).
• h + d insights is a weekly newsletter of the HyperStudio, the Digital Humanities program at MIT.
• Twitter: Not Even Past’s “List” of Digital History accounts on Twitter

5. Conferences and Summer Programs

• Digital Humanties Summer Institute: (Univ of Victoria) (they have scholarships too)
• That Camps (self-organized, “un-conferences”) AHA THATcamp (January 2015)
• UCLA (2014) Summer Seminar
• UCBerkeley (2014)

6. LOTS MORE READING

• Joan Neuberger’s intro to DH: “Digital History: A Primer (Part I)”  and “Digital History: A Primer (Part 2).”
  (includes lists of blogs and websites doing Digital History of various kinds)

• Kelly O’Neill’s syllabus (Harvard, 2013): Digital History from 101 to 3.0
  (google “Digital History Syllabus” for many more)