I suppose it had to happen. The volunteer editors at Wikipedia have begun deleting entries from the massive online encyclopedia based upon their view of that entry’s value. On December 2, the Washington Post’s David Segal ran a story called “Look Me Up Under Missing Link,” in which he detailed the stories of several people…
Visualizing Political Polarization
It is a commonplace among political historians and the punditocracy to discuss the polarization of the body politic in societies at various moments. Well, here’s an example of how digital media can be used to visualize the polarization of the American body politic in 2004. Valdis Krebs of orgnet.com (Warning: slow loading site with large…
Historical Thinking Submerged
A second project I want to highlight from my graduate seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age is by Kurt Knoerl. Kurt is the owner and webmaster of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology and one of the PhD students in our program. The Museum exists entirely online, but Kurt has plans to establish a distributed…
Why Reinvent the Wheel?
Last night the students in my grad seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age gave their final project presentations. The results were very impressive and proof that when you give good graduate students the tools they need, they come up with excellent results. The first example I want to highlight is the work of Ken…