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…
Tag: World History
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…
A Day Like No Other
I would have posted this yesterday, on June 4, but found myself enmeshed in what is sometimes called “a real goat rope” involving one of our online projects. So, this post is appearing a day later than it should, as will be apparent when you read what it’s about… Historians and pundits are fond of…
History After Communism
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…