It’s spring, the birds are singing, and Tom, Dan, and I — and our special guest Lisa Spiro — have recorded another Digital Campus podcast. In addition to discussing the NEH start up grants in more detail, we managed to work in a comment or two about the iPad, which I’ve heard launched recently. And…
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New NEH Digital Start Up Grants
Last week the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the most recent winners of funding from the Digital Humanities Start Up grant competition (including a team here at CHNM). Three things jump out at me as I look at the list of new projects. The first is a…
Progress? We’ll see…
For those of you who have waiting on the edge of your seats for the past one year, three months, and two days (as of today) since my course The Digital Past went to our General Education Committee for approval, there may be a sign of progress. After what the official communique describes as “a…
The Future of WikiHistory
[This post is a reposting of a contribution to the blog hist.net.] Because my friendly Amazon.com bot knows that I purchase books on Czech and Slovak history, I just received a notice of a new book on Slovak history titled Slovak Republic (1939-1945): Slovaks, Slovakia, Munich Agreement, History of Czechoslovakia (1948-1989). Because this title seemed…