This course is the first of three online courses that the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) has developed, with funding from
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I’m pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded me a Landmarks of American History & Culture: Workshop for School Teachers Grant for 2015-2016. The
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On May 21, I am presenting a paper entitled “Putting Working Women on the Map: Gender and Everyday Life in 1920s Harlem” at the Women’s
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On April 24, 2015, I’m presenting a paper entitled “What Was Life Like in 1920s Harlem?” at the Sawyer Seminar on The Ghetto: Concept, Conditions, and Connections in
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On March 20, 2015, I will participate in “Digital Humanities & The Liberal Arts: A Symposium” at the College of William and Mary. I will
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Alex Goodall, Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era, American Historical Review 120, (February 2015): 275-276
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On January 5, 2015, I’m chairing a roundtable at the American Historical Association Conference, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, New York Hilton, Beekman Parlor Innovation in Digital Publishing
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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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On November 21, 2014, I’m presenting a paper titled “Collecting Grains of Sand: Big Data and the History of Ordinary Individuals” as part of the
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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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This course is my version of HIST 696, the first of the two digital history courses required of all PhD students at GMU. I was introduced to this
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Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, October 29, 1 PM Abstract: New technologies are transforming how humanities scholars can frame questions, conduct research, construct
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Roundtable at the Urban History Association Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, October 10, 2014 Chair and Moderator: LaDale Winling, Virginia Tech Participants: Colin Gordon, University of Iowa
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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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On April 25, I’m talking about “Putting Harlem on the Map: Visualizing Everyday Life in a 1920s Neighborhood” as part of the Mapping New York
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Scholar, Maker, Creator: New Humanities Conversations April 8 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Commonwealth
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On April 1, I’ll be giving two talks on Digital Harlem at the University of Pennsylvania. Behind the Scenes at Digital Harlem Tools-and-Techniques in the
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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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My article, “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has appeared in the Journal of Urban History, vol. 39, no.
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My article, “The Company’s Voice in the Workplace: Labor Spies, Propaganda and Personnel Management, 1918-1920,” has now appeared in the Fall 2013 issue of Labor:
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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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The official announcement was made today that I have accepted the position of director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and
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“Private Detectives and the Paper Work of Surveillance in the United States, 1855-1939,” presented at Paper Work: the Materials and Practices of Modern Information Cultures
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USSC6914 Key Issues in American Culture USSC6914 is a core unit in the Masters of US Studies, taught in an intensive 10-week mode of weekly
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HSTY2670 New York, New York This is the fourth iteration of this lecture and tutorial course, which explores the history and representation of New York
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HSTY4011 Digital History New Honours Seminar Description: New technologies are transforming the work of historians, and the ways in which we interpret the past and
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“Joining the Crowd: Connecting a Digital History Project to the Web,” Data – Asset – Method Network Workshop – So you think you’re an expert?,
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