Essays on History and New Media
- Below are links to essays devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects of taking history into a digital format—many of them by people associated with the Center for History and New Media. We would like to expand this list and welcome suggestions of essays that might be added.
Overviews
- Orville Vernon Burton, "American Digital History," July 2005
- Daniel J. Cohen, "The Future of Preserving the Past," June 2005
- Daniel J. Cohen, "History and the Second Decade of the Web," June 2004
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era," June 2003
- Roy Rosenzweig, "The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web," September 2001
- Michael O’Malley and Roy Rosenzweig, "Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web," June 1997
Scholarship
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past," June 2006
- Daniel J. Cohen, "From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections," March 2006
- Michael Jon Jensen, "Evolution, Intelligent Design, Climate Change, and the Scholarly Ecosystem," March 2006
- Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, "Web of lies? Historical knowledge on the Internet," December 2005
- David A. Bell, "The Bookless Future: What the Internet is Doing to Scholarship," May 2005
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Should Historical Scholarship Be Free?," April 2005
- Patrick Manning , "Gutenberg-e: Electronic Entry to the Historical Professoriate," December 2004
- Joshua Brown, "History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries," June 2004
- Brian Dennis, Carl Smith, and Jonathan Smith, "Using Technology, Making History: A Collaborative Experiment in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Scholarship," June 2004
- Randy Bass, "The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies," December 1999
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Crashing the System? Hypertext and Scholarship on American Culture," June 1999
- Carl Smith, "Can You Do Serious History on the Web?," February 1998
Teaching Digital History
- T. Mills Kelly, "Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for “Old People”," August 2006
- T. Mills Kelly, "The Role of Technology in World History Teaching," July 2006
- Michael Coventry, Peter Felten, David Jaffee, Cecilia O'Leary, and Tracey Weis, with Susannah McGowan, "Ways of Seeing: Evidence and Learning in the History Classroom," March 2006
- Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, "No Computer Left Behind," February 2006
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Digital Archives Are a Gift of Wisdom to Be Used Wisely," June 2005
- Daniel J. Cohen, "By the Book: Assessing the Place of Textbooks in U.S. Survey Courses," March 2005
- Kelly Schrum, "Surfing for the Past: How to Separate the Good from the Bad," May 2003
- David Jaffee, "'Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye': E-Supplements and the Teaching of U.S. History," March 2003
- T. Mills Kelly, "Toward Transparency in Teaching: Publishing a Course Portfolio," November 2001
- T. Mills Kelly, "Using New Media to Teach East European History," September 2001
- David Kobrin, "Using 'History Matters' with a Ninth-Grade Class," May 2001
- Kelly Schrum, "Making History on the Web Matter in the Classroom," May 2001
- Tracey Weiss, "Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar," May 2001
- T. Mills Kelly, "For Better or Worse? The Marriage of the Web and Classroom," August 2000
- Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig, "Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, and Proposals," December 1999
- Gary J. Kornblith, "'Dynamic Syllabi for Dummies': Posting Class Assignments on the World Wide Web," March 1998
Designing for the Web
- Paula Petrik, "Top Ten Mistakes in Academic Web Design," May 2000
- Michael O'Malley, "Building Effective Course Sites: Some Thoughts on Design for Academic Work," February 2000
- Paula Petrik, "'We Shall Be All': Designing History for the Web," December 1999
Topics in Digital History
- Thomas Dublin, "Labor History on the World Wide Web: Thoughts on Jumping onto a Moving Express Train," August 2002
- Douglas Linder, "Lessons Learned from Building the Famous Trials Website," January 2001
- John Summers, "The Future of Labor’s Past," February 1999
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors & Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet," December 1998
- Roy Rosenzweig, "'So, What’s Next for Clio?' CD-ROM and Historians," March 1995