Is H-War a Community?

I observed the H-Net list H-War over the past week. According to the H-War web page on H-Net, the discussion list “encourages scholarly discussion of world military history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.” The list membership,... More

Final Project proposal

I propose to do a web site much like The Difference Slavery Made site dealing with the topic of German-Japanese relations in WW II. This site would have an overall article that would have an argument and draw conclusions. But... More

The promise of Digital Scholarship

The online component of “The Differences Slavery Made” is an extension of the digital archive The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War based on Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia. At first glance, in... More

Web Design

Good Web Site Design: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bad Web Site Design: Society for Military History Headquarters The USHMM web site is a nice example of a good web site with good design. While it does have a lot... More

WW II Website review proposal

I propose to do a web review proposal that tackles World War II on the web. I want to first compare a basic difference in how many web pages are possibly out there on WW II in Western Europe as... More

Web Site Review

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil Warhttp://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ Created by Edward L. Ayers in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). Maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History staff. Reviewed September... More

Scavanger Hunt

This scavanger hunt wasn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be. Especially in just 30 minutes. I managed to find only four of the nine items. The first item, a .wav file of Trotsky speaking in English wasn't... More

What Historians Do

The fundamental goal of historians working in academia, museums, etc., is to gather information and then teach the public about the past and why it matters, or should matter, to their lives. Historians that specialize in historical preservation also preserve... More