Regular readers of Edwired will note that the design changed over the weekend. Those handsome geeks in the picture are working away on a Sperry Univac. When I was a kid we actually went on a field trip to the Sperry facility in Washington, D.C., and got to see one of those behemoths in action….
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Award Winning World History
I’m very pleased to announce that World History Matters has won the American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize, a biennial award for “the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching of history in any field.” Like all good digital history projects, World History Matters is a collaboration of many…
What Happens When You Turn Grad Students Loose
This semester the students in my graduate course Teaching History in the Digital Age produced either digital projects (if they had the tech skills) or concept papers for digital projects (if they didn’t). I’ve already highlighted two of the digital projects (and will highlight one more shortly). Today I want to call attention to the…
History 2.0
What does Web 2.0 mean for the humanities? Tonight at the Center for History and New Media we hosted the DC Area Technology & Humanities Forum, the title of which was “Scholarship 2.0: What Web 2.0 means for Digital Humanists.” The speakers were our own Dan Cohen, Eddie Maloney from the CNDLS project at Georgetown…