Getting Started
Finding, Organizing, and Analyzing Sources
Working with Non-Textual Sources
Introduction to Visualizations
Introduction to Spatial History and Mapping
Introduction to Text and Data Mining
Shared Authority and the Community
Digital Pedagogy
Trends in Scholarly Communication

Getting Started

• Highlights of the Digital History Web, http://history2014.doingdh.org/digital-history-web/

Finding, Organizing, and Analyzing Sources

• Examples of Digital History Collection Sites, http://history2014.doingdh.org/digital-collections/
• Arago, People, Postage, and the Post, http://arago.si.edu
• Emergence of Advertising in America:http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
• Smithsonian Collections, http://collections.si.edu/search/
• Ebay, http://ebay.com/

Working with Non-Textual Sources

• National Jukebox, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
• Postmodern Jukebox, http://www.postmodernjukebox.com/
• Allmusic, http://www.allmusic.com/
• Oral History in the Digital Age, http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/
• Virtual Paul’s Cross Project http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/
• Emily Thompson, The Roaring Twenties, an interactive exploration of the historical soundscape of New York City, http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=98

Introduction to Visualizations

 

• Mapping the Republic of Letters, https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
• Visualizing Emancipation, http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

Introduction to Spatial History and Mapping

• Digital Harlem, http://digitalharlem.org/
• Stanford Spatial History Project, http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/index.php
• David Rumsey Maps, http://www.davidrumsey.com/
• Old Maps Online, http://oldmapsonline.org/
• Massachusetts State Library, insurance atlases, http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html
• 1938 atlas of Boston: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mastatelibrary/sets/72157634969569499/

Introduction to Text and Data Mining

• With Criminal Intent, http://criminalintent.org/
• Mining the Dispatch, http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/pages/home
• Old Bailey Online, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
• Cameron Blevins, Topic Modeling Martha Ballard’s Diary (series of posts), http://historying.org/2010/04/01/topic-modeling-martha-ballards-diary/

Shared Authority and the Community

• September 11 Digital Archive, http://911digitalarchive.org
• WikiPedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Flickr Commons, http://flickr.com/commons/
• Trove, National Library of Australia, http://trove.nla.gov.au/
• Papers of the War Department, RRCHNM, http://wardepartmentpapers.org
• Scripto, http://scripto.org
• Zooniverse, https://www.zooniverse.org/
• Improve the V&A Collections Search,http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/
• Smithsonian Transcription Desk, https://transcription.si.edu/

Digital Pedagogy

• Teaching History, teachinghistory.org
• History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu
• Historical Thinking Matters, http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/
• Journal of Interactive Pedagogy, http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Trends in Scholarly Communication

• DHNow: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/
• Orcid, http://orcid.org/
• DH Commons Journal, for in-process reviews, http://dhcommons.org/journal