Schedule

1. (August 23) Historical Scholarship
2. (August 30) Print Scholarship
3. (September 6) Digital Medium
4. (September 13) Digital Journal Articles: hypertext
5. (September 20) Digital Journal Articles: enhanced and supplemented
6. (September 27) e-books
7. (October 4) Digital Monographs
8. (October 18) Digital Dissertations
9. (October 25) Blogs: the first (individual and group) generation
10. (November 1) Blogs: the second (magazine?) generation
11. (November 8) Exhibits: before Omeka
12. (November 15) Exhibits: after Omeka
13. (November 22) Podcasts
14. (November 29) Evaluating Digital Scholarship

(August 23) Historical Scholarship

Readings

1. Gilfoyle, Timothy J. “The Changing Forms of History.” Perspectives on History, April 2015. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2015/the-changing-forms-of-history.
2. Grossman, James R. “The Diffusion of Knowledge.” Perspectives on History. December 16, 2020. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/the-diffusion-of-knowledge-toward-a-wider-definition-of-scholarship

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(August 30) Print Scholarship

Readings

1. Maza, Sarah. “Does Size Matter?” Perspectives on History, September 2012. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2012/does-size-matter.
2. Putnam, Lara. “The Opportunity Costs of Remaining a Book Discipline.” Perspectives on History, April 2015. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2015/the-opportunity-costs-of-remaining-a-book-discipline.
3. Dalton, Margaret Stieg. “Scholarly Historical Periodicals: Retrospect and Prospect, 188-97. In The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, 1986. https://archive.org/details/origindevelopmen0000dalt.
4. Hérubel Jean-Pierre V. “Significance of Scholarly Journal Articles and Academic Historians: Discussion, and a Necessary Tension?” Publishing Research Quarterly 36, no. 3 (September 2020): 446–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-020-09744-y.
5. **Degroot, Dagomar. “Writing About Climate Change, Whaling, and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century Arctic.” NiCHE (August 30, 2022). https://niche-canada.org/2022/08/30/writing-about-climate-change-whaling-and-conflict-in-the-seventeenth-century-arctic/.
6. Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. “Authorship.” In Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, 50-60. New York: New York University Press, 2011. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/lib/gmu/reader.action?docID=865470&ppg=10.
7. Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. “Peer Review.” In Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, 18-23. New York: New York University Press, 2011. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/lib/gmu/reader.action?docID=865470&ppg=10.

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(September 6) The Digital Medium

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(September 13) Digital Journal Articles: hypertext

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(September 20) Digital Journal Articles: enhanced and supplemented

Readings

1. Quinlan, Sean. “With Darnton into Cyberspace: The AHR’s New Avatar.” Perspectives on History, March 2000. https://www-historians-org.mutex.gmu.edu/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2000/with-darnton-into-cyberspace-the-ahrs-new-avatar.
2. Piker, Joshua. “The WMQ on the OI Reader.” Uncommon Sense (blog), June 14, 2018. https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the-wmq-on-the-oi-reader/.
3. Piker, Joshua. “Digital History Publishing and You. Yes You.” Uncommon Sense (blog), March 22, 2021. https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/digital-history-publishing-and-you-yes-you/. [The supplement discussed is only accessible to OI members]
4. Ayers, Edward L. “A New and Familiar Form of Scholarship.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 4–8. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/715888.
5. Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Who’s HiPS? Plain Sight Histories of Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 15–18. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/715890.
6. Leon, Sharon M. “Silence and Blindness: Newman’s Digitally Enhanced Imaginary.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 19–24. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/715892.
7. Newman, Simon P. “Breaking Free: Digital History and Escaping from Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 33–40. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/715894.
8. Blevins, Cameron. “Sound and Community: ‘Singing Box 331’ as Digital History.” The William and Mary Quarterly 77, no. 3 (2020): 372–79. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/761435.
9. Wheeler, Rachel, and Sarah Eyerly. “The Singing Box.” The William and Mary Quarterly 77, no. 3 (2020): 393–404. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/761433.

Examples

• Newman, Simon. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica Part 1.” William and Mary Quarterly, OIEAHC, 2018. https://oieahc.wm.edu/digital-projects/oi-reader/simon-p-newman-hidden-in-plain-sight/.
• Wheeler, Rachel, and Sarah Eyerly. “Singing Box 331: Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns From The Moravian Archives.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 2020. https://oieahc.wm.edu/digital-projects/oi-reader/singing-box-331-rachel-wheeler-sarah-eyerly/.
• Darnton, Robert. “An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris.” The American Historical Review 105, no. 1 (February 1, 2000): 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.1.1.
  • “An Early Information Society.” 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20011218032200/http://www.indiana.edu/~ahr/darnton/

Additional Examples & Reading

• Blevins, Cameron. “Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston.” Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (2014): 122–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau184.
  • Blevins, Cameron. “Mining and Mapping the Production of Space,” 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20210416100136/http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=93#swf7.
• Delmont, Matt. ed. “Urban Sights: Urban History and Visual Culture.” online special issue of Urban History 43, no. 4 (November 2016). http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/urban-sights-visual-culture-and-urban-history/index.
  • Delmont, Matt. “Introduction.” Urban History 43, no. 4 (November 2016): 635–38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926816000389.

Related: The print journal in the digital age

0. Townsend, Robert. “From Publishing to Communication: The AHA’s Online Journey” Perspectives on History, May 2013. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2013/from-publishing-to-communication.
1. Grossberg, Michael. “History Journals in the Twenty-First Century.” Perspectives on History, May 1997. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-1997/history-journals-in-the-twenty-first-century.
2. Schneider, Robert. “The Golden Age of the Scholarly Article Is Now.” Perspectives on History, September 2006. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2006/the-golden-age-of-the-scholarly-article-is-now.
3. Schneider, Robert. “Scholarly Journals in the Digital Age: One Editor’s Reflections of the Moment.” Perspectives on History, January 2011. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2011/scholarly-journals-in-the-digital-age.
4. Schneider, Robert. “After Ten Years: Reflections of an Editor.” Perspectives on History, July 2015. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2015/after-ten-years-reflections-of-an-editor.
5. Process: a blog for American history. “The Journal of American History in the Digital Age: An OAH Panel Report,” July 6, 2015. http://www.processhistory.org/jah-digital/.

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(September 27) e-Books

Readings

1. Darnton, Robert. “A Program for Reviving the Monograph.” Perspectives on History, September 2000. https://www-historians-org.mutex.gmu.edu/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-1999/a-program-for-reviving-the-monograph.
2. Manning, Patrick. “Gutenberg-e: Electronic Entry to the Historical Professoriate.” The American Historical Review 109, no. 5 (2004): 1505–26. https://doi.org/10.1086/530934.
3. Shoemaker, Bob. “The Future of the (e)Book.” History Matters (blog), December 1, 2015. http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/future-ebook/.
4. Shoemaker, Bob. “The Future of the Online Monograph.” History Matters (blog), October 12, 2020. http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/future-online-monograph/.
5. Gold, Matthew K., Jojo Karlin, and Krystyna Michael. “Hybrid Scholarly Publication Models in a Digital Age.” In New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture, edited by Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden, 277–91. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/lib/gmu/reader.action?docID=6957112&ppg=288.

Examples

• Steuer, Kenneth. Pursuit of an “Unparalleled Opportunity:” The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy during World War I. Columbia University Press, 2008. http://www.gutenberg-e.org.mutex.gmu.edu/steuer/index.html.
• Hitchcock, Tim, and Robert Shoemaker. London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800. Open Access Electronic Edition. Sheffield: Digital Humanities Institute, 2020. https://www.londonlives.org/book/index.html.
• Cordell, Ryan, David Smith, Abby Mullen, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, and Avery Blankenship. Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers. https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/going-the-rounds. [Manifold]
• Brennan, Sheila. Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post. University of Michigan Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9847183. [Fulcrum]
  • Brennan, Sheila. “Stamping American Memory,” 2016. http://stampingamericanmemory.org/

Additional Examples & Reading

• “Gutenberg-e Publications | AHA.” https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/historical-archives/gutenberg-e-program-(1999-2008)/gutenberg-e-publications.

1. Denbo, Seth. “Imagining the Digital Monograph.” Perspectives on History, November 1, 2018. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2018/imagining-the-digital-monograph-publishers-and-authors-pursue-new-forms-for-scholarship.
2. Wittenberg, Kate. “The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital Monographs.” Learned Publishing 22, no. 1 (2009): 36–41. https://doi.org/10.1087/095315108X378767.
3. Seaman, John T. Jr., and Margaret B. W. Graham. “Sustainability and the Scholarly Enterprise: A History of Gutenberg-e.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43, no. 3 (2012): 257–93. https://doi.org/10.1353/scp.2012.0012.

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(October 4) Digital Monographs

Readings

1. Darnton, Robert. “The New Age of the Book.” New York Review of Books, March 18, 1999. https://www-nybooks-com.mutex.gmu.edu/articles/1999/03/18/the-new-age-of-the-book/.
2. Seaman, John T. Jr., and Margaret B. W. Graham. “Sustainability and the Scholarly Enterprise: A History of Gutenberg-e.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43, no. 3 (2012): *272-275 ONLY*. https://doi.org/10.1353/scp.2012.0012.
3. Spence, Paul. “The Academic Book and Its Digital Dilemmas.” Convergence 24, no. 5 (October 1, 2018): 458–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518772029.
4. Riva, Massimo. “An Emerging Scholarly Form: The Digital Monograph.” DigitCult – Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures 2, no. 3 (December 26, 2017): 63–74. https://digitcult.lim.di.unimi.it/index.php/dc/article/view/53.
5. Delmont, Matt. “‘Does It Count?’ Scholarly Communication and African American Digital History.” Perspectives on History, November 2016. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2016/does-it-count-scholarly-communication-and-african-american-digital-history.

Examples

• Pohlandt-McCormick, Helena. “I Saw a Nightmare…” Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. http://www.gutenberg-e.org.mutex.gmu.edu/pohlandt-mccormick/index.html.
• Riva, Massimo. Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. https://shadow-plays.org/.
• Bauch, Nicholas. Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. http://enchantingthedesert.com/home/.
• Delmont, Matthew. “Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers.” Stanford University Press, 2019. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29420.

Additional Examples & Readings

• Gengenbach, Heidi. Binding Memories: Women as Makers and Tellers of History in Magude, Mozambique. Columbia University Press, 2005. http://www.gutenberg-e.org.mutex.gmu.edu/geh01/.
• The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China, ed. Thomas S. M ullaney. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. https://chinesedeathscape.org/.
• Sullivan, Elaine A. Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. http://constructingthesacred.org.
• Bashir, Shahzad. A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures. Cambridge, MA, and London, England: MIT Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.26300/bdp.bashir.ipf
• Dale, Elizabeth. Fight for Rights: The Chicago 1919 Riots and the Struggle for Black Justice. University of Florida Library, 2022. https://chicago1919.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/fightforrights/index.

1. Levy, Allison, and Sarah McKee. “Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community.” Brown University, 2022. https://multimodal-digital-monographs.pubpub.org/.
2. McPherson, Tara. “Assembling Scholarship: From Vectors to Scalar.” In Feminist in a Software Lab, 112–233. Difference + Design. Harvard University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv23dxd3g.7.
3. *Bashir, Shahzad. “Designing History for the Web: A Digital Book Report.” History and Theory (forthcoming, December 2022).

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(October 11) Fall Break

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(October 18) Digital Dissertations

Readings

1. Kuhn, Virginia. “Embrace and Ambivalence.” Academe 99, no. 1 (2013): Jan-Feb., https://www.aaup.org/article/embrace-and-ambivalence
2. Department of History and Art History, George Mason University. “Digital Dissertation Guidelines.” Accessed August 6, 2022. https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/graduate/phd-history/digital-dissertation-guidelines.
3. Sharpe, Celeste. “Digital Dissertations and the Changing Nature of Doctoral Work.” Perspectives Daily (blog), April 23, 2019. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2019/digital-dissertations-and-the-changing-nature-of-doctoral-work.
4. Sharpe, Celeste. “Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation.” In Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities, edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger, 237–46. Open Book Publishers, 2021. https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0239.pdf.
5. Wieringa, Jeri. “Beyond the PDF: Navigating the Digital Dissertation.” The American Historian, 2020. https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2020/loss-and-learning/beyond-the-pdf-navigating-the-digital-dissertation/.
6. Armand, Cecile. “MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History.” In Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities, edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger, 119–28. Open Book Publishers, 2021, https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0239.pdf

Examples

• Wieringa, Jeri E. “A Gospel of Health and Salvation.” Ph.D., George Mason University, 2019. http://dissertation.jeriwieringa.com/.
  • Dissertation overview: https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11564
• Sharpe, Celeste. “They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945-1980,” 2016. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/system/login.
  • Dissertation overview: http://mars.gmu.edu/handle/1920/10555.

Additional examples and readings

• Branstetter, Leah Tallen. “Women in Rock and Roll’s First Wave.” Case Western Reserve University, 2019. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=case1555003265733456.

1. Visconti, Amanda. “Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape.” Literature Geek (blog), January 11, 2016. http://literaturegeek.com/2016/01/11/welcomedigitaldissertations
2. “Next Generation Dissertations,” August 25, 2021. https://nextgennmd.hcommons.org/.
3. #RemixtheDiss Models (Google Sheet)
4. Walden, Katherine, and Thomas Oates. “Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation.” In Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities, edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger, 107–18. Open Book Publishers, 2021. https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0239.pdf.

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(October 25) Blogs: the first (individual and group) generation

Readings

1. Cohen, Dan. “Professors, Start Your Blogs.” 2006. https://dancohen.org/2006/08/21/professors-start-your-blogs/.
2. Phillpott, Matthew. “Uses of blogs for historians.” Blogging For Historians. 2013. https://bloggingforhistorians.wordpress.com/guide-to-blogging-main-index/uses-of-blogs-for-historians/
3. Cummings, Alex Sayf, and Jonathan Jarrett. “Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging & the Academy.” In Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki. University of Michigan Press, 2013. https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/xw42n885n?locale=en#/6/72[chp20]!/4/2/4[p246]/1:0.
4. Rogers, Helen. “Blogging Our Criminal Past: Social Media, Public Engagement and Creative History.” Law, Crime and History 5, no. 1 (2015): 54–76. https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/8918.
5. Potter, Claire. “How I Became a Writer.” Substack newsletter. Political Junkie (blog), January 12, 2022. https://clairepotter.substack.com/p/how-i-became-a-writer.

Examples

• Claire Potter, Tenured Radical (2006-2011), https://tenured-radical.blogspot.com/ + (2011-2015), https://www-chronicle-com.mutex.gmu.edu/blognetwork/tenuredradical/ + Tenured Radical 3.0 (2014-2021), https://clairepotter.com/tenured-radical/.
• Matt Houlbrook, The Trickster Prince (2011-2016), https://tricksterprince.wordpress.com/.
• Tim Hitchcock, Historyonics (2007-2019), http://historyonics.blogspot.com/.

• U.S. Intellectual History Blog (active), https://s-usih.org/blog/.
• Religion in American History (2007-2019), http://usreligion.blogspot.com/.
• The Digital Panopticon (2013-2018), https://blog.digitalpanopticon.org/blog/.

Additional Examples & Reading

• Sharon Howard, Early Modern Notes (active), https://earlymodernnotes.wordpress.com/.
• Lucy Williams, Wayward Women (2012-2018), https://waywardwomen.wordpress.com/.
• Executed Today (2007-2020), http://www.executedtoday.com/.
• The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History (2012-2020), https://earlyamericanists.com/.
• Cliopatria Awards for History Blogging, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20130502174915/http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/143866.html
• Cliopatria Awards for History Blogging, 2005-2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20131222205444/http://hnn.us/blog/20359.
  • Note: you’ll need to use the Wayback Machine to see many older blogs as they are no longer online: https://archive.org/web/.

1. Owens, Trevor. “Wherein I Answer 13 Questions About Digital Humanities Blogging.” Trevor Owens (blog), November 1, 2014. http://www.trevorowens.org/2014/11/wherein-i-answer-13-questions-about-digital-humanities-blogging/.
2. Hitchcock, Tim. “Historyonics: Doing It in Public: Impact, Blogging, Social Media and the Academy.” Historyonics (blog), July 15, 2014. http://historyonics.blogspot.com/2014/07/doing-it-in-public-impact-blogging.html.
3. Steel, Karl, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Mary Kate Hurley, and Eileen A. Joy. “Why We Blog: An Essay in Four Movements.” Literature Compass 9, no. 12 (2012): 1016–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12012.
4. Adcock, Tina, Keith Grant, Stacy Nation-Knapper, Beth Robertson, and Corey Slumkoski. “Canadian History Blogging: Reflections at the Intersection of Digital Storytelling, Academic Research, and Public Outreach.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de La Société Historique Du Canada 27, no. 2 (2016): 1–39. https://doi.org/10.7202/1040560ar.
5. Milligan, Ian. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age, 48-50 [on Active History] Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/transformation-of-historical-research-in-the-digital-age/30DFBEAA3B753370946B7A98045CFEF4.
6. Werner, Sarah. “When Blog History Meets Book History.” The Collation (blog), August 17, 2021. http://collation.folger.edu/2021/08/blog-history-book-history/.
7. Faure, Gilbert. “Are Personal Academic Blogs a Thing of the Past?” Impact of Social Sciences (blog), April 11, 2022. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/04/11/are-personal-academic-blogs-a-thing-of-the-past/.
8. Sacco, Nick. “Where Did All the Bloggers Go? A Few Thoughts on Historians and Blogging – Exploring the Past,” 2021. https://pastexplore.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/where-did-all-the-bloggers-go-a-few-thoughts-on-historians-and-blogging/.
9. *Crymble, Adam. “The Rise and Fall of the Scholarly Blog.” In Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age, 137–60. University of Illinois Press, 2021. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/lib/gmu/reader.action?docID=6532324&ppg=115 [more DH than history]

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(November 1) Blogs: the second (magazine?) generation

Readings

1. Bergen, Sadie. “From Personal to Professional: Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream.” Perspectives, 2017. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2017/from-personal-to-professional-collaborative-history-blogs-go-mainstream.
2. Matthews-Jones, Lucinda. “Blogging the Victorians for the Journal of Victorian Culture Online.” Journal of Victorian Culture 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 102–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2015.1127283.
3. McGregor, Andrew. “The Power of Blogging: Rethinking Scholarship and Reshaping Boundaries at Sport in American History.” Journal of Sport History 44, no. 2 (2017): 239–56. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/666547.
4. Wulf, Karin. “A New Scholarly Society Is Doing the Urgent Work of the Past.” The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), March 30, 2017. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/03/30/a-newly-founded-scholarly-society-brings-a-fresh-perspective-offers-useful-lessons-for-engaging-the-public-and-researchers-alike/.

Examples

• Nursing Clio, https://nursingclio.org/
• Notches, https://notchesblog.com/
• Black Perspectives, https://www.aaihs.org/black-perspectives/
• Sport in American History, https://ussporthistory.com/

Additional Readings

1. Cervantes, Bobby. “What’s Next for Blogging as Public Engagement? A Journalist Finds a Home for His Academic Writing,” 2021. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2021/whats-next-for-blogging-as-public-engagement-a-journalist-finds-a-home-for-his-academic-writing.
2. Linden, Andrew D., and Lindsay Parks Pieper. “Writing Sport Online: An Analysis of the Pitfalls and Potential of Academic Blogging.” Journal of Sport History 44, no. 2 (2017): 257–74.
3. *Crymble, Adam. “The Rise and Fall of the Scholarly Blog.” In Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age, 137–60. University of Illinois Press, 2021. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/lib/gmu/reader.action?docID=6532324&ppg=115 [more digital history than history]

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(November 8) Online Exhibits: before Omeka

“Electronic Essay/Exhibit: a secondary source created specifically for the web that interprets the past. These often incorporate primary sources, but within the presentation of a historical narrative or argument.”

(Web Review Guidelines, Journal of American History, 2008, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/jahguidelines.html)

Readings

1. *Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, “Exhibitions,” The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook (December 20, 2021), https://inclusivehistorian.com/exhibitions/.
2. Smith, Carl. “Can You Do Serious History on the Web?” Perspectives on History, February 1998. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-1998/can-you-do-serious-history-on-the-web.
3. Cohen, Dan, and Roy Rosenzweig. “Exhibits, Films, Scholarship and Essays.” In Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, 2006. https://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/exploring/4.php.html. [Focus on the discussion of exhibits]
4. Linder, Douglas. “Lessons Learned from Building the Famous Trials Website.” The Jurist, January 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20080130044526/http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/10.
   1. Linder, Douglas. “About ‘Famous Trials,’” 2017. https://famous-trials.com/about-famous-trials.

Examples

• “The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory: Welcome,” December 3, 1996. http://web.archive.org/web/19961203161335/http:/chicagohs.org/fire/index.html.
  • “The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory: Introduction.” 2011. https://greatchicagofire.org/index.html.
• “The Dramas of Haymarket,” 2000. https://www.chicagohistoryresources.org/dramas/.
• “Famous Trials – UMKC School of Law – Prof. Douglas Linder,” 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051231223847/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm.
  • “Famous Trials,” 2022. https://famous-trials.com/.

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 (November 15) Online Exhibits: after Omeka

“While the “exhibit” has not been a standard mode of scholarly production in fields outside art history, we might consider the new kinds of scholarly inquiry such a mode of curation could inspire. As more of our work within the humanities comes to engage with mediated primary materials such as visual representations and digital archives, the more we might fruitfully create new forms of networked arguments driven by the juxtaposition of digital objects and their analysis”

(Fitzpatrick, 2011, p. 103)

Readings

1. Omeka
   • Omeka Classic Showcase of sites
2. Owens, Trevor. “A Draft Style Guide for Digital Collection Hypertexts.” Trevor Owens (blog), February 28, 2014. http://www.trevorowens.org/2014/02/a-draft-style-guide-for-digital-collection-hypertexts/.
3. “Harlem Education History Project [Interview with Ainsley Erickson].” The Metropole (blog), August 15, 2018. https://themetropole.blog/2018/08/15/digital-summer-school-harlem-education-history-project/.
4. Foreman, P. Gabrielle. “The Colored Conventions Project and the Changing Same.” Commonplace 16, no. 1 (2015). http://commonplace.online/article/the-colored-conventions-project-and-the-changing-same/.

Examples

• Harlem Education History Project, https://web.archive.org/web/20210607115947/https://harlemeducationhistory.library.columbia.edu/collection/exh  (archive link – currently offline)
• Colored Conventions Project. “Colored Conventions Project,” 2012. https://coloredconventions.org/.
  • Compare an exhibit with an article based on the exhibit[NB other exhibits that are articles in the collection were not curated by the article author (Foreman, Casey, Patterson, 10-11)]
    • Patterson, Sarah. “Prosperity and Politics: Taking Stock of Black Wealth and the 1843 Convention.” Colored Conventions Project, 2014. https://coloredconventions.org/black-wealth/.
    • Patterson, Sarah Lynn. “AS THE TRUE GUARDIANS OF OUR INTERESTS: The Ethos of Black Leadership and Demography at Antebellum Colored Conventions.” In The Colored Conventions Movement, edited by Sarah Lynn Patterson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, and Jim Casey, 211–29. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469654287_foreman.14.

Additional Examples

• Gonzaba, Eric. “Exhibits.” Wearing Gay History. http://wearinggayhistory.com/exhibits.
  • “Student Project Award: Reflections from Eric Gonzaba | National Council on Public History.” https://ncph.org/history-at-work/student-project-award-eric-gonzaba/.

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 (November 22) Podcasts

Readings

1. Covart, Liz. “History Podcasts: An Overview of the Field.” Journal of American History 109, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 220–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaac229.
2. Cohen, Dan. “Bridging the Academic-Public Divide Through Podcasts,” 2018. https://dancohen.org/2018/11/04/bridging-the-academic-public-divide-through-podcasts/.
3. Cuffe, Honae H. “Lend Me Your Ears: The Rise of the History Podcast in Australia.” History Australia 16, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 553–69. https://www-tandfonline-com.mutex.gmu.edu/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2019.1636676.
4. Horrocks, Allison. “Podcasting Public History: Comparing Throughline and Backstory.” The Public Historian 42, no. 4 (2020): 173–77. https://muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu/article/772895.
5. Moten, Crystal M. “Creating During Crisis: The Development of the Black HERstory 101 Podcast.” Journal of Women’s History 33, no. 3 (2021): 157–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2021.0031.

Examples

• Ben Franklin’s World, https://benfranklinsworld.com/.
• Backstory, https://www.backstoryradio.org/.
• Black HERstory 101, https://www.blackherstory101.com/.
• Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, https://www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com/show/intertwined-the-enslaved-community-at-george-washingtons-mount-vernon-1/.

Additional examples and readings

• Seizing Freedom, https://seizingfreedom.vpm.org/.
• History Podcasts by Historians, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ei1mYwzHQcELogxJtpJwPhOVcnFSq1H1qYRbrr0IDic/edit
• The Age of Jackson Podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-age-of-jackson-podcast/id1337546138.

1. Berry, Richard. “A Golden Age of Podcasting? Evaluating Serial in the Context of Podcast Histories.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 22, no. 2 (July 3, 2015): 170–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083363.
2. Hagood, Mack. “The Scholarly Podcast: Form and Function in Audio Academia.” In Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography, edited by Jeremy Wade Morris and Eric Hoyt. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
3. Jenkins, Bryan M, and Taryn K Myers. “Digital Black Voices: Podcasting and the Black Public Sphere.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 16, no. 3 (2022). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/3/000641/000641.html.
4. “Podcasts and Public History | National Council on Public History.” Accessed August 6, 2022. https://ncph.org/history-at-work/podcasts-and-public-history/.
5. Breen, Benjamin. “Podcasting the Past.” Bunk History (blog), August 20, 2018. https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/3036?related=1636&relationship_name=ANOTHER%20ANGLE.
6. Ansley, Laura. “History Podcasting Laid Bare.” Perspectives on History, April 21, 2021. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2021/history-podcasting-laid-bare-three-historians-bring-the-chippendales-dancers-to-your-earbuds.
7. Sigler, Krista. “Podcasting and the Profession.” Perspectives on History, May 2008. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2008/podcasting-and-the-profession.
8. Picard, Nathalie, and Cassandra Marsillo. “In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts.” International Public History 1, no. 2 (October 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2018-0015.

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 (November 29) Evaluating digital scholarship

Readings

Review these readings from previous weeks

• Grossman, James R. “The Diffusion of Knowledge.” Perspectives on History. December 16, 2020. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/january-2021/the-diffusion-of-knowledge-toward-a-wider-definition-of-scholarship
• Delmont, Matt. “‘Does It Count?’ Scholarly Communication and African American Digital History.” Perspectives on History, November 2016. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2016/does-it-count-scholarly-communication-and-african-american-digital-history.

1. Findlen, Paula. “What Counts: On Books, Articles, and Productivity.” Perspectives on History, September 2013. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2013/what-counts-on-books-articles-and-productivity.
2. Sweet, James. “Diffusion as Dilution? History and the Book.” Perspectives on History. February 2022. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-2022/diffusion-as-dilution-history-and-the-book.
3. American Historical Association. “Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians,” June 2015. https://www-historians-org.mutex.gmu.edu/teaching-and-learning/digital-history-resources/evaluation-of-digital-scholarship-in-history/guidelines-for-the-professional-evaluation-of-digital-scholarship-by-historians.
4. Presner, Todd. “How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 4 (2012). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/how-to-evaluate-digital-scholarship-by-todd-presner/.