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11 April 2017 – editors
Repeat photography is the practice of photographing a specific location at two or more points in time. It is a powerful visual resource for scientific study and education in forest and landscape management. To take advantage of this technology, the Forest History Society (FHS) recently started the Repeat Photography Project. Read More
27 February 2017 – Kirsten Delegard and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg 3
Not so long ago, few historians knew anything about GIS, or geographic information systems. Many of us saw little need to learn complicated software built on scripting languages and databases. We retreated to the familiar environment of the archives, leaving the technical challenges of GIS to geographers and computer scientists. Read More
13 February 2017 – editors
For more than two centuries, Americans have come together every July 4th to celebrate national unity. What happened during the deeply divided Civil War era? How did Americans commemorate their nation’s birthday as the nation was falling apart? A new project called Mapping the Fourth attempts to answer these questions. Read More
01 November 2016 – Adina Langer
Last Sunday, October 23, 2016, marked the opening of Georgia Journeys: Legacies of World War II , a new permanent exhibit at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University. The opening reception brought together educators and the interested public with nine of the twelve veterans, home front workers, and Holocaust survivors featured in the exhibit. Read More
26 September 2016 – editors
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is an audio-documentary project that allows people to hear stories from the past in the exact location where they occurred. The project, which debuted in 2015, trades the traditional historical plaque for mobile phone technology. Read More
08 September 2016 – Joseph Locke and Ben Wright
The American Yawp, the profession’s first multi-authored open textbook, contains thirty chapters and almost 300,000 words. It covers everything from indigenous creation stories to Instagram. How, with historical input accelerating and the scope of scholarship expanding, could any individual or small group of historians hope to capture the breadth of American history and to do so as expansively as a textbook demands? Read More
08 June 2016 – editors
On Monday, March 21, 2016 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia officially launched A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation, a new digital public history project that is the product of a multi-year, multi-institutional collaboration. This effort marks the beginning of a recollection of Liberia’s lost history and represents a very important step in reawakening the Liberian national consciousness. Read More
23 May 2016 – editors
The Internet has changed the way nearly every profession shares knowledge and communicates with the public. In the last few years archivists and historians working for the federal government have joined the conversation. In December 2015, the National Archives created History Hub, a platform for collaboration between researchers, historians, archivists, and the federal government. Read More
02 May 2016 – editors
When 2016 began, I had never heard of Juanita Blocker, Blanche Thompson, or Helen Short. That changed once I started working on “Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers,” a digital project designed to highlight moments from ordinary lives in African American history. Read More
20 April 2016 – Lara Kelland
"Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology" responses, public engagement, community history, digital history, The Public Historian, TPH 38.1, digital divide
In 2008, the Journal of American History published a conversation among several historians regarding the future of digital history. William G. Thomas III said, “We might imagine a more proximate collaboration in which historians team up with [community] groups. The Web 2.0 movement might allow historians and the public to make history together rather than separately. Read More