In the spring of 1995 I participated in a conference in Levoča, Slovakia on teaching about nationalism in post-Communist Europe. One of the participants, a member of the historical section of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, told us a story that day that summed up one of the most difficult issues faced by historians in…
Liberating Information and Designing for Thinking
The sixth episode of our podcast Digital Campus is now up and available for downloading. In this episode, we bring in our first guest–design guru and history blogger Jeremy Boggs–to discuss the ins and outs of good design, accessibility, and easy ways for those interested in the digital side of humanities to get started. We…
Teaching Consequences First
If you still use snail mail here in the U.S. you probably know that the cost to mail a first class letter within the U.S. went up to $0.41 today. At moments like this, a little historical perspective never hurts. Just be glad you didn’t live in Germany during the hyperinflation of 1923 when the…
Mapping the Past in Google Earth (cont’d)
After my earlier post on using Google Earth to map the past, I received an email from Tim Brixius pointing me to a new Google Earth layer that he has created marrying historical content with existing maps. This particular layer takes the content from a 1940 Guide to the Keystone State and projects it onto…