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…
Google Book Search
On Monday I attended a talk sponsored by the Center for History and New Media and the Visual Knowledge Project on Google’s plans to digitize essentially every book in several major university or research libraries (Michigan, Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, New York Public Library). The speakers were Clifford Lynch from the Coalition for Networked Information and…