Teaching with Digital History
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Food in the West
Julia M. Gossard | Mar 29, 2018
Students in Julia M. Gossard's Western Civilization course use Northwestern University Knight Lab's TimelineJS to create a digital chronology of the history of food. -
Students in the Trenches
Susan Corbesero | Feb 1, 2018
Susan Corbesero (The Ellis School) uses the crowdsourcing project, Operation War Diary, in her classroom to help students learn about the First World War. -
Teaching with Digital Archives
John Rosinbum | Nov 30, 2017
John Rosinbum illustrates how instructors can use digital archives to introduce students to archival research and related issues of resource inequity. -
Mapping the Early Modern World
Julia M Gossard | Oct 23, 2017
Julia M Gossard (Utah State Univ.) uses Google Maps to assign a mapping project to students in her survey course on the early modern world. -
Blending Local and Spatial History
Lindsey Passenger Wieck | Sep 25, 2017
Lindsey Passenger Wieck explains how students in her history classroom use Carto to create maps & become critical consumers of maps & media. -
Teaching w/ #DigHist in the New School Year
John Rosinbum | Aug 31, 2017
Since first publishing in August 2016, Teaching w/ #DigHist has offered a range of teaching tools to instructors interested in... -
Exploring the Brutality of Expansion
John Rosinbum | Jul 24, 2017
American Panorama is an interactive digital atlas with six different visualizations with subjects spanning American history from the 19th to the 21st centuries. -
“Wait . . . What?”
John Rosinbum | May 30, 2017
John Rosinbum describes how using Gapminder in the classroom helps students learn about broad historical trends and strengthens their data literacy skills. -
“Come Let Us Build a New World Together”: The SNCC Digital Gateway
Lauren Tilton | Apr 24, 2017
It can be challenging to teach about the civil rights movement. For many reasons, from time constrai... -
Before BuzzFeed: Going Viral in 19th-Century America
John Rosinbum | Mar 27, 2017
In 2005, David Foster Wallace told the graduating class of Kenyon College a joke:“There are these two young fish swimming...
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