Readers of this blog know the story of Edward Owens–the “Last American Pirate“–fairly well by now. Owens, a creation of my students in the course Lying About the Past, lives on, but in the way of all things in the academic world, I have managed to morph him from a fun classroom project into a…
Digital Campus, the iPad, and the NEH
It’s spring, the birds are singing, and Tom, Dan, and I — and our special guest Lisa Spiro — have recorded another Digital Campus podcast. In addition to discussing the NEH start up grants in more detail, we managed to work in a comment or two about the iPad, which I’ve heard launched recently. And…
New NEH Digital Start Up Grants
Last week the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the most recent winners of funding from the Digital Humanities Start Up grant competition (including a team here at CHNM). Three things jump out at me as I look at the list of new projects. The first is a…
Progress? We’ll see…
For those of you who have waiting on the edge of your seats for the past one year, three months, and two days (as of today) since my course The Digital Past went to our General Education Committee for approval, there may be a sign of progress. After what the official communique describes as “a…