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Category: Updates

Digital Harlem v2 is live at last

February 6, 2017 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Digital Harlem v2. Over the last several years Ian Johnson has been migrating our…

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Playing the Numbers & the History of Capitalism

September 25, 2014 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

The September 2014 issue of the Journal of American History features an interchange on the history of capitalism, which includes this shout-out…

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Digital Harlem has moved

December 18, 2013 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

The server at the University of Sydney that has been home to Digital Harlem has been shut down, and the…

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Posted in: Updates Filed under: Digital Harlem

New Review of Digital Harlem

July 26, 2013 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Nicholas Grant, of the University of East Anglia, reviews Digital Harlem in the IHR’s Reviews in History for 25 July…

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“Disorderly Houses” in the Journal of the History of Sexuality

August 27, 2012 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Our article, “Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem,” has now appeared in the Journal…

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Digital Harlem and Wikipedia

January 11, 2012 Stephen Robertson 4 Comments

One of the purposes of this blog is to raise awareness of Digital Harlem and draw visitors to the site.…

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Posted in: Publications, Updates Filed under: academics and wikipedia, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing history, digital history, digital humanities, Harlem, historians and Wikipedia, history and wikipedia, wikipedia, writing for wikipedia

Digital Harlem in “Writing History in the Digital Age”

October 7, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

An article about Digital Harlem, “Putting Harlem on the Map,” is part of Writing History in the Digital Age, a…

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Posted in: Publications, Updates Filed under: Harlem

A Prize for “Playing the Numbers”

September 8, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Our book, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, won the General History Prize at the 2011 NSW…

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Posted in: Updates Filed under: gambling, Harlem, NSW Premier's History Prize, playing the numbers

“Playing the Numbers” Reviewed in the Journal of American History

June 8, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

Marcy Sacks, Associate Professor of History at Albion College, and author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York…

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Posted in: Publications, Updates Filed under: book review, numbers, playing the numbers

ABC-CLIO Online History Award

February 2, 2011 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

I’m pleased to announce that Digital Harlem has been awarded the 2010 ABC-CLIO Online History Award, an award given by…

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digital_harlemDigital Harlem@digital_harlem·
8 Aug

Teaching the Harlem Renaissance? Check out a new chapter on using Digital Harlem as a resource for a complex picture of the neighborhood's everyday life, and to situate places and events in Harlem’s material environment: https://drstephenrobertson.com/digitalharlemblog/teaching-digital-harlem/

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26 Aug 2019

Take a look at our latest blog guest post, by @adambiggs236, on the history of desegregation of Harlem Hospital! https://twitter.com/NYAMHistory/status/1165985539167870978

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Desegregating Harlem Hospital: A Centennial http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2019/08/26/desegregating-harlem-hospital-a-centennial/

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13 Mar 2019

We've made the long overdue move to a self-hosted site - enjoy the Digital Harlem Blog without ads, and with a new theme at http://drstephenrobertson.com/digitalharlemblog/

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10 Sep 2018

Black Business in 1920s Harlem: mapping & graphing newspaper surveys & black business guides - https://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/black-businesses-in-1920s-harlem/

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8 Aug 2018

New blog posts on summer in 1920s Harlem 4/4: Summer Camps - https://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/summer-camps-for-1920s-harlem/ @UrbanHistoryA @AAIHS @AHAhistorians @SchomburgCenter

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