On May 2, 1995 Serbian paramilitary forces from the breakaway Krajina region of Croatia rocketed the center of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, killing five and wounding 121. They used rocket-propelled cluster bombs, warheads that spray shrapnel in order to maximize the loss of human life, rather than the destruction of infrastructure or military assets. This…
No Thanks, I Had a Big Lunch
Sometimes blog postings spin out of control. Last year I wrote three posts about the Donner Party and the way that their history had been captured in Wikipedia. My ruminations about the Donners, who might or might not have gotten eaten in their camp, and the nature of historical knowledge online have, been some of…
From Estonia to Phidgets
Episode 7 of our Digital Campus podcast is now up online for your listening enjoyment. In this episode, Tom, Dan, and I welcome Bill Turkel of Digital History Hacks to the studio (actually an office with a stand up mic that we all clustered around). Our discussion ranged from the assault on Estonia’s digital network…
What’s It All About?
During the month of May, Bill Turkel wrote a series of provocative posts about what digital history is and isn’t. Given how busy I’ve been, I’ve only just now gotten to those posts and I would argue that they should be required reading for historians–not just digital historians. In particular, the second post in the…