Links for the May 28, 2009 presentation, Digital History, at UMW Alumni College
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
- CW in 4 minutes – http://www.idkwtf.com/videos/latest-videos/the-civil-war-in-four-minutes
- Frederick Douglass’s escape in Google Earth – [Must have the free software on your computer to work — LINK]
- Historian Mills Kelly’s writings on using Google Earth historically.
- Archival collections of the recent past
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank – Katrina & Rita
- 3-D rendering
- Rome Reborn – Collaboration of UVA and UCLA
- 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition – “White City”
- 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
- Key American Studies texts changing over time – http://tagline.davelester.org/
- Wordle
- MONK
- http://monkproject.org/ – “to discover and analyze patterns in the texts [humanities scholars] study.”
- Tag Clouds
University of Mary Washington Digital History
- UMW Digital image archives – http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Index
- Examples
- 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
- Centennial blog
- UMW Centennial site at umw.edu
- Examples
- UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org
- History & American Studies Department work in blogs
- 1) To extend class discussion beyond the classroom
- Jess Rigelhaupt’s Politics and Culture of the 1960s – as class reading reactions
- US History in Film
- Scroll down to see post-class discussion of Pocahontas
- Sue Fernsebner’s Freshman Seminar: Toys as History – blog as course management tool
- 2) As Museum
- Krystyn Moon’s 19th-Century Museum – http://amst312.umwblogs.org/
- 3) As resource guide
- Steve Harris’s Hist 485: Researching Russian and Soviet Resources
- 1) To extend class discussion beyond the classroom
- Other departments’ history-related blog projects
- Marie McCallister’s 18th-Century Audio Blog
- Phillis Wheatley poem, read by 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/
- Marie McCallister’s 18th-Century Audio Blog
- My students’ digital history work
- Digital History Class – http://digitalhistory.umwblogs.org/
- Background
- Valley of the Shadow at UVA – http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
- Background
- Projects
- Historical Markers – http://fredmarkers.umwblogs.org/
- James Monroe Papers Project – http://monroepapers.umwblogs.org/
- Farmer Project – http://jamesfarmer.umwblogs.org/
- Introductory Farmer video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJXFKjzHLg
- Alumni Project – http://projects.umwhistory.org/alumni/
- Digital History Class – http://digitalhistory.umwblogs.org/
- History of Tech Museum Exhibit – http://historyoftech.umwblogs.org/
What can you do?
- Transcribe a letter and make it available.
- 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/
- Blogs as publishing platforms
- WordPress.com
- Manuals for UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org/support/
- Blogger.com
- Typepad.com (Not free)
- WordPress.com
UMW’s explorations in digital humanities and academic technologies have been featured in:
- EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About…” series
- May/June 2009 EDUCAUSE Review article on cutting-edge solutions to problems of 21st-century teaching and learning
- 2006 InfoWorld article about UMW’s use of low-cost, high-impact technology in teaching and learning
- Horizon Report (featuring cutting-edge technology people in Higher Education need to be aware of in the next 1-5 years) – UMW cited in paragraph 16
- Whitman 2.0 — NEH grant with three other schools to explore place in Walt Whitman’s writings. [See Chronicle of Higher Education article as well.]
Also UMW people cited by numerous sources on a variety of digital topics: as leading economics bloggers; as experts in the semantic web and information analysis (see p. 14).