Today’s “Lightning Talk” session was a great one-hour showcase for about a dozen digital projects:
Larry Cebula: Spokane Historical, a web and mobile platform for telling stories of Spokane and Eastern Washington, developed by the Public History program at Eastern Washington University using Curatescape and Omeka
Cathy Stanton: History@Work (hey, that’s us)
Bobby Allen: University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill’s Digital Innovation Lab, an American-Studies-based project that is developing, testing, and documenting best-practice models for faculty and graduate student work in public humanities that integrates community engagement, digital technologies, and interdisciplinary inquiry
Andrew Hurley: the Virtual City Project, which uses three-dimensional imaging technologies to create electronic representations of lost historic landscapes
Trevor Owens: Viewshare, a free web application developed by the Library of Congress for curators and collections managers to create and customize unique, dynamic online views of images from their collections.
The “unconference” movement is barely a decade old (Tom Scheinfeldt noted in our capstone session that the first one he attended was in Silicon Valley in 2004) but it’s clear that for many people–perhaps particularly for public historians–it offers a welcome alternative to more formal conference formats. Read More
We’re trying something new at this year’s NCPH/OAH conference, with due acknowledgement to Apple: a “genius bar” of experienced digital historians who will be available to answer questions on a wide range of topics, problems, and platforms. Our “Digital Drop-In” can be found in Exhibit Hall D Foyer, near the registration area, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Read More
Maybe you, too, have been to professional development workshops during which you discuss the “digital natives” supposedly filling our classrooms. Our students served as the IT departments in their own homes during their childhoods, so we often make the mistake of assuming that any technological task is second nature to them. Read More
A couple or three years ago, I recall hearing someone say in a meeting of the NCPH Digital Media Group that before long, we might find that “digital history” wasn’t really a separate realm anymore, but simply integrated into most aspects of what we do as public historians. Read More
The U.S. Senate Historical Office presents a new online feature: States in the Senate. Each state has its own unique place in Senate history. Reminders that we are a union of states surround us as we walk the halls of the Senate office buildings and the U.S Read More
I am always happy to discover how often new media scholarship benefits traditional research as well as public history practice. My recent experience with one particular online project using Zotero demonstrates how new media innovation can invigorate our classroom instruction in unexpected ways. Read More
The Public History Program at the University of South Carolina welcomes comments on a new website, “Slavery at South Carolina College, 1801–1865: The Foundations of the University of South Carolina.” While many American colleges and universities in recent years have been researching their historical connections to the institution of racial slavery, this website is the first public acknowledgement of the role of slaves and slavery at the antebellum college that became the University of South Carolina. Read More
From the early 1900s on, the interest in genealogy has been fairly widespread in Norway. Lately though, there has been an explosive increase in interest. This can be contributed to two main factors. One is the series “Who do you think you are?Read More
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