Links for Digital History Class for Alumni College 2011 – June 3, 2011
Jeffrey W. McClurken
What is “Digital History”?
- Online scholarly article with all the sources included
- Ed Ayers & Will Thomas — http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/
- GIS/imaging and historical maps
- University of Richmond’s projects using Google Earth
- The Slave Trade in Antebellum Richmond — http://dsl.richmond.edu/civilwar/slavemarket.html
- Visualizing Emancipation — http://dsl.richmond.edu/civilwar/vizemanc.html
- Historian Mills Kelly’s writings on using Google Earth historically.
- Quick takes on cutting edge projects using GIS http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/frontiers-in-spatial-humanities-video/
- Visualizing Washington DC in 1814 — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKY45I9Bsho&feature=youtu.be
- University of Richmond’s projects using Google Earth
- Archival collections of the recent past
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank – Katrina & Rita
- Heavy Metal Umlaut Video – Even Wikipedia has a history
- Twitter and the Library of Congress — archiving social media for historical uses
- Info on LOC and public Twitter archive. See http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=1280 for round up of initial reactions.
- 3-D rendering
- Rome Reborn – Collaboration of UVA and UCLA
- 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition – “White City“
- Lost Museum of P.T. Barnum
- Data-mining/Text mining
- Tag Clouds
- Wordle
- My notes for the history methods class as a tag cloud — http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/39965/299
- Gettysburg Address — http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/886521/G-burg_Address
- Wordle
- Victorian Book Project
- Google Ngrams
- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
- Ngram of Railroads and Secession in the Civil War Era –http://railroads.unl.edu/blog/?p=466
- MONK
- http://monkproject.org/ — “to discover and analyze patterns in the texts [humanities scholars] study.”
- Tag Clouds
- More traditional topics, but with powerful results
- Lincoln at 200 — Newberry Library and Chicago History Museum
University of Mary Washington Digital History
- UMW digital image archives — http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Index
- Aerial view from 1965 – http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/umw:616
- Monroe Hall Swimming pool – http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/umw:376
- UMW Battlefield Yearbook (1913-today) and Aubade (1971-present) – Digitized resources
- UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org
- History & American Studies Department work in blogs — http://home.umwhistory.org/course-sites/
- 1) Extending class discussion beyond the classroom
- Jess Rigelhaupt’s AMST Methods class – as class reading reactions
- http://amst201sec1s11.umwblogs.org/
- And Krystyn Moon’s Consumerism class. — http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/reflection-posts/
- Continuing class discussion beyond the classroom – my US History in Film course
- Scroll down to see post-class discussion of Pocahontas – 2008
- Sue Fernsebner’s Gender in Chinese History – Course management tool
- Jess Rigelhaupt’s AMST Methods class – as class reading reactions
- 2) As Museum
- History of Tech Museum Exhibit — http://historyoftech.umwblogs.org/
- 3) UMW History
- Rigelhaupt’s Oral History course that charted the 20 year creation of a Women and Gender Studies Program at UMW. — http://hist471d3f10.umwblogs.org/
- 4) As resource guide
- 1) Extending class discussion beyond the classroom
Other departments’ history-related blogs
- Marie McCallister’s 18th-Century Audio Blog
- Phillis Wheatley poem, read by UMW Prof. Mara Scanlon — http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/wheatley-on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america-read-by-mara-scanlon/
- Marjorie Och’s Online Venice Exhibit — http://venice.umwblogs.org/
- Zach Whalen’s The Evolution of Comics in America — http://graphicnovel.zachwhalen.net/content/evolution-comics-america
My students’ work
- Digital History Class — http://digitalhistory.umwblogs.org/ (2008) and http://dh2010.umwblogs.org (2010)
- 2008 Projects
- Historical Markers — http://fredmarkers.umwblogs.org/
- Farmer Project — http://jamesfarmer.umwblogs.org/
- Introductory video — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJXFKjzHLg
- Alumni Project — http://projects.umwhistory.org/alumni/
- 2008 Projects
- 2010 Projects
- UMW Images through the Ages – http://projects.umwhistory.org/images/
- Map of campus over the years by Dr. Hanna’s Mapmaking Class– http://www.maplib.net/fullmap.php?id=9075&legend=1
- Civil War Fredericksburg — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/
- Exhibits – http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/exhibits
- Fredericksburg as a Hospital — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/exhibits/show/fredericksburg-as-a-hospital/period-medicine
- Timeline — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/timeline
- Clickable Map with images and links to more details — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/maps
- James Monroe Papers — http://projects.umwhistory.org/jmp/
- Letters to Two Secretaries of State — http://projects.umwhistory.org/jmp/exhibits
- Map — http://umwhistory.org/projects/jmp/europe-map
- Tags — http://umwhistory.org/projects/jmp/items/tags
- Life and Legacy of Mary Ball Washington — http://maryballwash.umwblogs.org/
- Survey – http://maryballwash.umwblogs.org/survey/
- Timeline – http://maryballwash.umwblogs.org/timeline/
- UMW Images through the Ages – http://projects.umwhistory.org/images/
- History of Tech Museum Exhibit — http://historyoftech.umwblogs.org/
- What can you do?
- Transcribe a letter and make it available.
- e.g., http://nowviskie.org/2009/hidden-history/
- Individual approaches you can take:
- Scanning old photos or sharing new digital ones
- Flickr.com, Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/)
- My pictures on flickr — http://www.flickr.com/photos/52355157@N00/
- Scanning old photos or sharing new digital ones
- Transcribe a letter and make it available.
- Blogs as publishing platforms
- WordPress.com
- Manuals for UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org/support/
- Most of the advice is applicable to other forms of blogs.
- Manuals for UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org/support/
- Blogger.com
- Typepad.com (Not free)
- Umwblogs.org
- WordPress.com