The new semester begins today at George Mason University and I am very glad to see the students back on campus. It gets a little boring around here without them and I am really looking forward to spending time with them in class, in discussions in my office, and around campus in various venues. One…
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Pressing Forward
I’m very excited about a new project that I’ll be working on at the Center for History and New Media over the next few years: PressForward. My piece of this larger project is a new digital history “journal” tentatively titled Global Perspectives on Digital History. With my colleagues Peter Haber and Jan Hodel, the long-time…
More Historical Mapping Projects
It seems that almost every month now a new application appears that makes it easier and easier to mash up historical and geographic information. Two that I’ve taken notice of this week are Weaving History and HistoryPin, both still in their beta versions, and so still a little quirky. WeavingHistory lets the user build “factlets”…
Edward Owens and Wikipedia
If you’ve spent any time on the Internet in the past 10 years or so — and who hasn’t — you’ll know that one of the most popular memes is the Top 10 list. I don’t think I’ve ever perpetuated on before, but when Edward Owens, the fictional pirate created by the students in my…