Introductions to Doing Digital History

• Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Doing Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web(2005), Introduction and Chapter 1, https://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
• “Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics,” Profhacker(February 14, 2011). http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/creating-your-web-presence-a-primer-for-academics/30458
• “Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold (2012). http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/40
• “Interchange: The Promise of Digital History,” Journal of American History (2008). http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/interchange/index.html
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “The Humanities, Done Digitally,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold (2012). http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/30
• Matthew K. Gold, “The Digital Humanities Moment,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold (2012). http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/2
• Roger C. Schonfeld, Jennifer Rutner, “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians” (Ithaka S+R, 2012). http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/supporting-changing-research-practices-historians

Finding, Organizing, and Analyzing Sources

• “Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” American Historical Review 108, 3 (June 2003): 735-762. http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=6
• Tim Sherratt, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power and People,” Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 1, No. 1 (2011). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/its-all-about-the-stuff-by-tim-sherratt/

Building Digital Collections

• Cohen and Rosenzweig, “Becoming Digital” and “Owning the Past” in Digital History. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory
• Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy (New York: A Book Apart, 2011)
• Paige Morgan, “How to Get your Digital Humanities Project off the Ground,” http://www.paigemorgan.net/how-to-get-a-digital-humanities-project-off-the-ground/
• Writing History in the Digital Age: Part I: Re-Visioning Historical Writing, http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/revisioning/

Working with Non-Textual Sources

• Lawrence Levine, “Two Blues Songs,” Teaching History, http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-of-historical-thinking/25203
• Richard Cullen Rath, “Hearing American History,” Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (September 2008): 417–431. PDF of article
• Krista Sigler, “Podcasting and the Profession,” Perspectives on History, May 2008, http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2008/podcasting-and-the-profession
• Alex Zukas, “Different Drummers: Using Music to Teach History,”Perspectives on History, September 1996: http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-1996/different-drummers-using-music-to-teach-history

Introduction to Visualizations

• Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart, “Principles of Information Visualization,” in The Historian’s Macroscope – Working Title (Under contract with Imperial College Press, 2013), http://www.themacroscope.org/?page_id=469
• Lev Manovich, “Database as a Genre of New Media,” Society 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2000), http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/manovich.html
• Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software, Submitted. http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf. (Read through the end of section 3 on page 13.)

Introduction to Spatial History and Mapping

• Ian Gregory and Alistair Geddes, editors, Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014), Introduction and Chapter 2.
• Anne Knowles, “A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg,” Smithsonian Magazine (June 27, 2013) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Cutting-Edge-Second-Look-at-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html. [Online interactive map, with Dan Miller, International Mapping Associates (Alex Tait, Tim Montenyohl, Judy Nielsen), and ESRI (Allen Carroll, Lee Bock, James Cardona), funded by Smithsonian Enterprises.]
• Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps, 2nd edition (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1996)
• Richard White, “What is Spatial History?” Stanford University Spatial History Project (2010) http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29

Introduction to Text and Data Mining

• Megan R. Brett, “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction” Journal of Digital Humanities (2:1). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-a-basic-introduction-by-megan-r-brett/
• “Searching for the Victorians,” Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog, October 4, 2010, http://www.dancohen.org/2010/10/04/searching-for-the-victorians/
• “Where to Start with Text Mining,” Ted Underwood. The Stone and the Shell. http://tedunderwood.com/2012/08/14/where-to-start-with-text-mining/

Shared Authority and the Community

• “Selections from Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski, eds. Letting Go?: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World, 2011. (PDF of Selections)
• Fiona Romeo and Lucinda Blaser, “Bringing Citizen Scientists and Historians Together,” Conference Paper, Museums and the Web (2011), http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/bringing_citizen_scientists_and_historians_tog
• Writing History in the Digital Age: Part II, Wisdom of the Crowd, http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/

Digital Pedagogy

• “Selections from the edited collection, Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy (2011) http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/
• T. Mills Kelly, Teaching History in the Digital Age (University of Michigan Press, 2013).
• Writing History in the Digital Age, Part 3: Practice What You Teach (and Teach What You Practice):  http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/teach/

Trends in Scholarly Communication

• Review Journal of Digital Humanities: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/, particularly the issue on evaluation: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (New York: NYU Press, 2011). http://mcpress.media-commons.org/plannedobsolescence/