The Department of History and Art History at George Mason University (where CHNM is located) has just received approval to hire a tenure track digital historian. We are very excited about this new position, which will be half in the Department teaching digital history courses and half in CHNM working on existing projects and developing…
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Historical Code Monkeys
For years historians engaged in digital work have used the “I can’t really write much code” excuse as a way to avoid everything from learning simple tools like CSS to more complex ones like MySQL and PHP. Alas for me and everyone else who has used the “me no code” excuse, we’ll have to find…
Gulag History Online
The largest penal system in human history–the Gulag–is fast disappearing from the physical landscape. Of all of the many camps that dotted the maps of the Soviet Union, only Perm 36 survives largely as it was before 1991. The rest of the Gulag complex has been torn down, scavenged for scrap metal and building materials,…
The Future of the AHA (cont’d)
I’ve already written a couple of posts about the future of the American Historical Association and my experiences at THATCamp this past weekend have caused me to add an addendum to what I’ve already proposed. If you read those earlier posts you’ll see that I have suggested radical surgery for the AHA annual meeting to…