I just found out today that I’ll have an “apprentice” next semester to help me with writing about June 4, 1989. Ms. Kristin May, one of our brightest undergraduate history majors, will be paid by the University to work as my apprentice with the understanding that she will not only do her own research as…
Steal This E-Book!
The latest edition of Digital Campus (#16) is up and available for your listening pleasure. In this edition, Dan, Tom, and I discuss the merits of and opportunities posed by the new “digital book readers” like Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader. We also take on the issue of Facebook’s latest entry into the world of…
Jobs in Digital History
During this year’s job search season it has been gratifying to see some advertisements specifying digital history experience. There were tenure-track jobs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (public history), the University of South Carolina (public history), California State-San Marcos (digital humanities) and at the University of Western Ontario (Canadian/US history) that explicitly stated a…
World’s Largest Photo Archive?
If flickr.com is not the world’s largest photo archive, I’d like to know what is. On November 10, 2007, the two billionth image was uploaded to the flickr website. As vast as the holdings of the various national archives around the world are, I would be amazed to learn that any of them held more…