One of the more interesting recent entries into the business of collecting history online is the MemoryWiki project which has the slogan “Everyone has a story. Make yours history.” Started by the Russian historian, now writer for The Atlantic Monthly, Marshall Poe, this new project takes advantage of the popularity of the Wikipedia and aspires…
CHNM on WAMU
Roy Rosenzweig and Dan Cohen from the Center for History and New Media appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU this past Tuesday where they discussed collecting history online. A big part of the discussion was the new Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, the second in our line of digital memory projects (the September 11…
New Media at the AHA
After a hiatus for the holiday break, EdWired is back. I spent last weekend in Philadelphia at the American Historical Association’s annual conference. Most of the time I was locked in a hotel room interviewing candidates for a European history position at GMU, but I did manage to get out long enough to chair a…
Whither Wiki?
Anyone teaching history these days knows how ubiquitous the Wikipedia has become in our students’ imaginings of what sorts of historical information they might use in their research. This semester I’ve received more papers that rely almost exclusively on the Wikipedia than ever before. To try to get my students to think a little more…