Community

As of November 24, 2004, Google’s online community Early Modern Social History boasted “about 123,000 threads” covering topics ranging from “Stupid Battles of History” to the “Definition of Humanism” to “The First Secular Humanist State was not Revolutionary France.”... More

Archive/Research Project

I propose a research project that would explore “subversive” groups within post-World War Two America. Specifically, such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, the American Communist Party, the Aryan Nation and the American Nazi Party. Some lesser known organizations to... More

Digital Project Proposal

Through my examination of Winston Churchill for the Web Review Essay assignment, I discovered that there was a vast void in the online information related to the man. The two most prominent sites that deal exclusively with Churchill -- the... More

Digital Scholarship

Keeping the “Promise of Digital Scholarship” Digital scholarship might be classified as an attempt to break free from traditional print or linear forms of scholarship, elevating the craft to a higher level of interpretation and presentation through the use of... More

Design

An example of bad web site design can be found at the Westchester Township Historical Museum in Chesterton, Indiana . No, I didn’t have to go to such an obscure place (no slight intended, Chesterton) to find an example of... More

Answer to Question for Sept. 27 Class

2. What would Keith Jenkins say about Cronon's essay? How would Cronon respond? In his essay, “A Place for Stories,” William Cronon explores the importance of “narrative” in the telling of history, to which historian Keith Jenkins might take issue.... More

Additional Web Site Evaluation Comments

I agree with Mary’s assessment of the Brainerd, KA site. Its design is simple, and in that simplicity lays its strength. Absent are the many commercial aspects of the National Geographic’s web site that makes one question National Geogrpahic’s motives,... More

Review Essay Proposal

With Columbus’s discovery of and subsequent voyages to America, an unstoppable series of events was put into motion that affected the world forever. Most notably were the geo-political consequences of “discovering” new lands, new peoples and, especially, new sources of... More

Links didn't Link

My links to the Valley of the Shadow web site in my web review did not link. I followed the instructions, but...... What could I have done wrong? Any way to correct it in the website evaluation category?... More

Website Evaluation

The University of Virginia’s The Valley of the Shadow web site strives to be an archival resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in the Civil War period and, with few exceptions, it succeeds in achieving this goal. Originally conceived... More

Image

I discovered that HTML does not like the "&" symbol in the name of a photo. The name of my photo was originally "B&WVAmts", but when I tried to upload it, the HTML code only had the "B" in the... More

Image

This is the second time I'm trying to upload an image...hope it works! :-)... More

Scavenger Hunt

Sorry, but this may be a little long winded. In all honesty, I went over the 30 minutes, but I learned a lot more about web searching and I had fun in the process! 1. Was a tricky one to... More

What Historians Do

Goals of Historians: gather information on the past, interpret/reinterpret this information, disseminate information to the public and other historians through lectures and publications (books, etc.). Historians can use the web to search for information and can use the web to... More