Doing History in the Digital Age

As more historians take on digital projects, new issues surface regarding methodology, dissemination, even ethics. In this issue, Perspectives explores what it means to do history in the digital age. Illustration by Zoila Torres, after a Farm Security Administration photograph by Jack Delano/Library of Congress. In the image, a young person sells copies of the Chicago Defender, one of the nation’s leading African American newspapers, in 1942.

Staff

Allison Miller, editor
Stephanie Kingsley, associate editor, web content and social media
Kritika Agarwal
, associate editor, publications
Sadie Bergen, assistant editor
Liz Townsend, coordinator, data administration and integrity

Other Articles

The AHA Townhouse

November 1, 2016

From the Editor

Townhouse Notes, November 2016
The Malian emperor Mansa Musa depicted on a 14th-century Catalan map (Credit: BnF Gallica via Wikimedia Commons)

November 1, 2016

From the President

An African Diaspora Curriculum
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November 1, 2016

In Memoriam

William H. McNeill (1917–2016)
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November 30, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Charles Hubbard
A visualization of the job titles held by 2,500 history PhDs tracked for the study “The Many Careers of History PhDs,” by L. Maren Wood and Robert Townsend (www.historians.org/manycareers). What this study did for the discipline as a whole, the AHA’s career-tracking service will do for individual history departments.

November 28, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

Owning Our Graduate Education: Preparing for Career Diversity
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November 22, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Amy Forss
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November 21, 2016

Perspectives Daily

History, Economics, and Food

November 18, 2016

From the Association, Perspectives Daily

AHA Statement in Aftermath of 2016 Election

November 17, 2016

From the Association, Perspectives Daily

Letter of Support for National Monument to Reconstruction
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November 17, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

Denver’s Asian Americans
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November 15, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: David Baker

November 14, 2016

From the Association, Perspectives Daily

Letter of Concern to Polish Government Regarding Treatment of Historian Jan Gross
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November 14, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Humanizing Data: Making Sense of Research on Tuberculosis
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November 8, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Yovanna Pineda
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November 7, 2016

Perspectives Daily

Historians in Training: Interning at an Academic Journal
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November 4, 2016

AHA Activities, From the Editor, Perspectives Daily

Growing Pains and Growing Pleasures in Digital History: Announcing the November Issue of Perspectives
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November 3, 2016

AHA Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

The “Animal Turn” in History
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November 2, 2016

Member Spotlight, Perspectives Daily

AHA Member Spotlight: Heather Wacha
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November 1, 2016

Perspectives Daily

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