I’m very pleased to announce that World History Matters has won the American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize, a biennial award for “the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching of history in any field.” Like all good digital history projects, World History Matters is a collaboration of many…
Tag: Academic Commons
What Happens When You Turn Grad Students Loose
This semester the students in my graduate course Teaching History in the Digital Age produced either digital projects (if they had the tech skills) or concept papers for digital projects (if they didn’t). I’ve already highlighted two of the digital projects (and will highlight one more shortly). Today I want to call attention to the…
History 2.0
What does Web 2.0 mean for the humanities? Tonight at the Center for History and New Media we hosted the DC Area Technology & Humanities Forum, the title of which was “Scholarship 2.0: What Web 2.0 means for Digital Humanists.” The speakers were our own Dan Cohen, Eddie Maloney from the CNDLS project at Georgetown…
Historical Thinking Submerged
A second project I want to highlight from my graduate seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age is by Kurt Knoerl. Kurt is the owner and webmaster of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology and one of the PhD students in our program. The Museum exists entirely online, but Kurt has plans to establish a distributed…