In addition to Digital Campus, there are two more podcasts from CHNM that I want to mention: Voices from the Storm (Episode 6) and History Conversations. In Voices from the Storm, Sheila Brennan and I read stories submitted to the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and in Episode 6 we read two stories that deal with…
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Digital Campus Lucky 13
It’s hard to believe it, but Dan, Tom, and I have now been podcasting at Digital Campus for more than half a year. I know this because our 13th episode is up online and since we do one approximately every two weeks, that means it was more than half a year ago that we started….
Unshredding the Past
It turns out that shredding your documents isn’t as effective as you thought it was. As the East German Communist regime collapsed in 1989, officials of the State Security Service (Stasi) shredded anything they could get their hands on, leaving behind around 16,000 bags of paper shreds. Until now, that meant that these documents were…
The Undergraduate Curriculum (III)
In my two earlier posts about the history undergraduate curriculum, I’ve taken up the issue of what is or should be required of history students, and how digital media might more usefully be incorporated into their educational experience. Today I want to look at a third issue in the teaching of history to undergraduates–the general…