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
Building Digital Collections
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
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
Trends in Scholarly Communication