J-History Community

The J-History community on H-Net is best summarized as an extension of the existing academic organizations for Journalism History. The members are primarily those who would join the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) History Division or... More

Public History

Just briefly, some of these sites used technology nicely, but many of them really blew it....... More

Archives-Research Project

The Oyez.org Website would be a useful tool for historical research on oral presentations at the Supreme Court. With more than 2000 hours of U.S. Supreme Court audio clips, Jerry Goldman’s Oyez site would give the historical researcher the rare... More

Journalism History Final Project Proposal

I would like to propose a Website on Journalism History for my final project. The proposal would be for a teaching site, one designed as a supplement for a college undergraduate courses, and not for a solely Web based class.... More

Roger-Digital Scholarship

Historians are captive to the medium within which they work. With the vast majority of our work published as print documents, we tend to think and work within print’s strengths and weaknesses. This means, we turn largely to print... More

Design: The Good, the Bad and the downright Ugly!

I have selected the Real History Archives as my example of a poorly designed website. See the site itself at http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/index2.htm and my full critique of it at http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmellen/baddesign.html. The layout and even the URLdoes not make too much sense... More

New Revised, Proposal for a Web Review Essay

I now propose to review Websites that explore Watergate, an important even in journalism history. There are several sites that are rich with material and worthy, I think, of analysis: 1) Watergate.info is an educational site created by an Australian... More

Narrative Blog: Comparison of Murray and Manovich

The narrative is the primary focus of Janet Murray’s book, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, while the database takes center stage in the chapters we read from Lev Manovich’s The Language of New Media. This difference appears to be a consequence of Murray’s background in literature in contrast to Manovich’s in cinema and new media art. More

Website Evaluation by Roger Mellen of Brainerd, Kansas: Time, Place, and Memory on the Web

This homemade Website on Brainerd, Kansas is a remarkable presentation of oral history, memories and photographs put together by an amateur historian. Although it avoids easy categorization, as many of this type of personal Web efforts do, it could be... More

Roger Mellen's Proposal for a Web Review Essay

My Web Review will look at online syllabi for history and history-related courses. This will not be an overall pedogical review of the course as represented in the syllabus, but rather a review of their use of the Internet... More

Roger's Scavenger Hunt

Trotsky: Alta Vista search, under audio failed. Google, Trostky," mp3 and English came up with: From ResistanceMP3 at http://www.stlimc.org/~marks/fulllist.htm who they claim is Trotsky speaking in English: http://ito.gn.apc.org/trotskyPCM.mp3 Suffrage poem, simple Googled the quotation with quotes around it. LOC and... More

What Historians Do ????

Scholarship: Historians are looking to reach new conclusions, or theses, regarding the past, and looking to its meaning for the present and/or future. Teaching: To introduce students to the basic ideas of thinking as historians do. Museums: To introduce... More