On the Digital Harlem Blog I’ve posted the preprint of my long forthcoming chapter on using Digital Harlem to teach the Harlem Renaissance (finished in
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Like many DH teachers, I have had to look for an alternative to Carto to introduce students to digital mapping now that they have fully
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This post is a slightly revised version of a presentation I gave at the University of Florida Digital Humanities Bootcamp on January 28, 2016. It represents
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I’m thrilled to be part of Women’s History in Motion, a conference to celebrate the career of Alice Kessler-Harris, who I was extremely fortunate to have
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The February 2016 issue of the American Historical Review includes an extended review of Digital Harlem — “Harlem Crime, Soapbox Speeches, and Beauty Parlors: Digital Historical Context and
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For Open Access Week I’m collaborating with Jeri Wieringa and Claudia Holland of GMU Libraries to run “How to make your published articles open access,”
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[Cross-posted from the RRCHNM blog] This is the text of my presentation in the session on the future of digital humanities centers, on day two
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This is the second in a series of posts about aspects of RRCHNM’s history written to mark the Center’s 20th anniversary. No sooner had I published
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This is the first in a series of posts about aspects of RRCHNM’s history written to mark the Center’s 20th anniversary. (The second post is
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The revised & expanded version of this post published in Debates in Digital Humanities 2016 is now online. For the last nine months I’ve spent much
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HIST 390 The Digital Past Spring 2014 Syllabus This course is my version of HIST 390, the course first developed by Dan Cohen, which satisfies
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The print version of “Putting Harlem on the Map” has recently been published by the University of Michigan Press in the collection Writing History in the
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I was very happy to have two articles appear in print this month. But one had been accepted in November 2011, the other in February
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Moving means packing up my office. As you can see, on one side of the office are books; on the other, filing cabinets and piles
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Populating a Building in Harlem: 116 West 144th Street, Digital Harlem Blog Aggregated census data have been important in establishing the character of Harlem as
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