On-line Discussion Groups

Report from the field on Online Discussion Groups H-Net Discussion Group H-SHEAR list, The Early American Republic Months reviewed: June, August, and September 2004 Who is involved in the discussion? Who are the members of the discussion community? Mainly college... More

Research using digital archives

An idea for a digital archives historical research project The project would use the capabilities and collections of American Memory at the Library of Congress. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington had diametrically opposed views of the democratic-republican societies that were... More

Project Proposal Prospectus

Digital History Project Proposal Prospectus 1. Scope, genre, audience Scope: My proposed project will focus on a particular aspect of nineteenth-century political culture: the impact that the War of 1812 had on the Jeffersonian party. I envision the site having... More

Ben's Comments on Digital scholarship

Hunt/Censer - Images of the French Revolution The home page was slow to load on a dial-up connection due to images, but there is a nice rollover effect on the homepage images that invites you into the sections of the... More

Good and bad web design

In keeping with the theme of my home page, Early Nineteenth-Century Political Culture, I have chosen one site for political history and one archival site with documents pertinent to nineteenth-century constitutional history. For my example of good design I have... More

Ben's Thoughts on Narrative Questions

I have chosen to respond to both questions (1) and (2). Commentary on Cronon essay: The story that Cronon tells in his essay is on one level a "story about storytellers who express their own times and political visions." But... More

Website Evaluation

Remembering Pearl Harbor http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor Created by unknown; Produced by Paula Willard; maintained by David Tam and Mia Eaton. Latest site update is unknown. Reviewed Sept. 19, 2004. Remembering Pearl Harbor is a commercial, not a scholarly, site. As such the... More

Review Essay Proposal

For my Web Review Essay I propose to examine the presentation on the web of the historical topic: The War of 1812. I believe that this topic will be an interesting one for the web review because of all the... More

Scavenger Hunt Results

Results of my web scavenger hunt: 1. Trotsky recording in English Pass after fruitless search for 10 minutes. 2. Suffrage poem Poem is from Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, by Alice Duer Miller Poem entitled... More

What Historians Do

Goals of historians working in public history (on the web): 1. Make professional, scholarly history available to the public in a format that is understandable, accessable, and informative. 2. More to follow How new media can help historians attain these... More