One of the main activities of the Center for History and New Media these days is collecting and preserving history online. Our biggest project is the September 11 Digital Archive, but we have several other similar projects, the newest of which is the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Until now… One of the great things about…
The History Blogosphere
Today at the Center for History and New Media, Jeremy Boggs gave a presentation on the History Blogosphere (as of today). This blog entry is being written as he speaks, just to give you an idea of the potential immediacy of blogging. His presentation links are available on his blog. According to Jeremy, Cliopatria is…
1989 Online
This past week I got the news from the National Endowment for the Humanities that our grant application to create a major website on the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was accepted. The project, Making the History of 1989. Sources and Narratives on the Fall of Communism, will be the latest installment in our…
History Course Podcasts
Check out this comment from Jeff Curto, one of the people whose podcasts I featured in an earlier post. Note, in particular, the reaction of his students to being part of a larger audience. His perception of their response squares with what I’ve learned over the years about students and online writing. The larger the…