To begin, the class came up with the following questions: What is a digital historian? Who are digital historians and what do they do? What do we need to learn? Each person in the class suggested one of the sources below.
Sources for Discussion
- “Brantford Public Library Wins Provincial Award” Toronto Sun (Feb 29, 2012) [Video]
- “Digital History Keywords,” WolfWikis (n.d.)
- The September 11 Digital Archive, CHNM
- Brown, Clements, Grundy, Ruecker, Antoniuk & Balazs, “Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research,” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, no. 2 (2009)
- Burton, “American Digital History,” Social Science Computer Review 23, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 206-220
- Cohen, Frisch, Gallagher, Mintz, Sword, Taylor, Thomas & Turkel, “Interchange: The Promise of Digital History,” Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (Sep 2008)
- Cohen & Rosenzweig, “Promises and Perils of Digital History,” from Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2005
- Levesque, “Discovering the Past: Engaging Canadian Students in Digital History,” Canadian Social Studies 40, no. 1 (Summer 2006)
- Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (Jun 2003): 735-762
- Seefeldt & Thomas, “What is Digital History? A Look at Some Exemplar Projects,” University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Faculty Pubs, Dept of History, Paper 98
- Spiro, “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oct 14, 2011)
- Wesch, “Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us” (Jan 31, 2007) [Video]
William J Turkel 