I presented an early prototype of a new project mapping early 20th century undercover investigations at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society for
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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