This is the central site for Dr. Jeffrey W. McClurken, Chair and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington.

My book: Take Care of the Living, published by UVA Press in 2009

My class blogs:

• HIST471C3–Adventures in Digital History–Spring 2010
• FSEM100–TED.com–Ideas Worth Sharing–Fall 2009 (co-taught with Tim O’Donnell)
• HIST325–History of American Technology and Culture–Spring 2009
  [And the final product of the class, an exhibit of their work: History of American Technology....]
• FSEM100RR–When Americans Came Marching Home–Fall 2008
  HIST329–US History in Film–Fall 2008
• HIST471C3 — Adventures in Digital History–Spring 2008
  • See the EDUCAUSE Review article citing this class.
• FSEM100RR — When Americans Came Marching Home–Fall 2007
  HIST299 — Introduction to the Study of History–Fall 2007
  

My wiki for all classes

My Online Presence:

• Techist — My personal blog about teaching, history, and technology.
• Chronicle of a Pseudo-DIY — My experimental blog about my experiments with “building” stuff.
• Prof. Hacker — I’m a contributor to this group blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on pedagogy and productivity in higher education.
• Digital Campus — I’m an occasional guest (an “Irregular”) on this podcast about digital technology and its impact on campus life. (See episodes 44, 53, and 57)
• DH Now — I’m a “founding passive editor” of this Digital Humanities information filtering project started by Dan Cohen.
• jmcclurken — My Twitter feed for comments on Digital Humanities, history, teaching, and technology
• wheresthechair — My Twitter feed for my office hours and presence on campus [UMWers, please request a follow]
  • Post explaining the Twitter device I created for outside my office.

My department’s static site [And our department blog & information resource.]

My Presentations

• Banner Lecture, Virginia Historical Society, “Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia,” June 2010 [Audio only]
• UMW’s Teaching Excellence Series Presentation, “Teaching and Learning with New Media,” April 2010 [Links]
• Presentation to Honor Convocation, 2008

I’ve also been an active participant in planning of the Virginia Forum, an annual meeting of historians, geographers, literary scholars, historic preservationists, archivists, and librarians: http://virginiaforum.org/

My campus Flickr photostream: