Today the Center for History and New Media became the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Roy would have been so embarrassed by this name change, because one of his goals in life was to make sure everyone else got credit for the work they were doing with him. Taking credit was just…
Author: Mills
Visualizing Millions of Words
One of the very first posts I wrote for this blog was about visualizing information and some of the new online tools that had cropped up to make it a little easier to think about the relationships between data–words, people, etc. Interesting as they were, those tools were all very limited in their scope and…
Teaching Students to Commit Fraud
Regular readers of this blog will know that not long ago I taught a class called Lying About the Past in which my students created a fictitious historical figure — Edward Owens, the “last American pirate.” That class generated a fair amount of comment in the blogosphere and has resulted in some very interesting conversations…
Google, eBooks, and Teaching
Google has at last announced the long- (or at least sort of long-) anticipated launch of Google eBooks. With more than 3 million books available online and with a potential library of many, many millions more as a result of their scanning project, Google is offering up a service that I think will turn out…