SourceLab: Digital Documentary Publishing in the History Classroom

Thanks to smartphones and cameras, we’re all publishers now. Everyone’s a documentarian—our notions of the ‘historical record’ are being transformed by billions of self-published sources—yet humanities curricula often sideline basic instruction in scholarly editing and digital publishing. But students can be developing these skills in history classrooms, helping them become better critics as well as producers of online sources.

Join us on Wednesday, December 10, at 3:30 p.m. ET for an hour-long webinar that will describe the experience at SourceLab, a pilot curriculum in digital documentary editing developed by the Department of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We will present examples of student work as well as curricular materials, showing how we scaffold this experience at Illinois. The panel will also include discussion of how this curriculum intersects with graduate training and teaching at the PhD level. We look forward to hearing about other models, as well, and hope that this discussion may help to develop a working group on digital documentary publishing methods and modules within humanities curricula.

Moderated by Kalani Craig, this event features Owen Monroe, John Randolph, and Richard Young.

This online event is free and open to the public. To attend, register here. Can’t make it? Sign up anyway and view the recording on the AHA’s YouTube channel after the event.