The Metropole, the official blog of the Urban History Association, has published a post I wrote on Harlem in Disorder. The post describes the origins
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On March 5, 2024, my open access digital monograph, Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, was published by
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My article “The Properties of Digital History” appeared in the December 2022 issue of History and Theory. It originated in an invitation from Jesse Torgerson
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This semester I will be teaching a new course, Digital Scholarship, examining the digital forms in which historical scholarship can be published. The idea for
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The Models of Argument-Driven Digital History website launched today: https://model-articles.rrchnm.org/. It contains a set of published journal articles annotated by their authors to highlight the
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A book chapter I co-authored with Lincoln Mullen, “Navigating through narrative,” has appeared in Making Deep Maps: Foundations, Approaches, and Methods, a collection edited by
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This week the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded me a NEH Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication to support “Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History
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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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On February 3, 2017, I delivered the keynote address at the 9th Annual Bridging the Spectrum Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information
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My article “Searching for Anglo-American Digital Legal History,” has been published in Law and History Review 34, 4 (November 2016), a special issue on digital legal history. ABSTRACT
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“Toward a Spatial Narrative of the 1935 Harlem Riot: Mapping and Storytelling after the Geospatial Turn,” New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally:
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My chapter, “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History,” has appeared in Debates in Digital Humanities 2016, expertly edited by Lauren Klein and Matt Gold
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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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[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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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 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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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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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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