Digital Dispatches
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Data Storytelling and Historical Knowledge
Seth Denbo | Apr 1, 2015
The role that data plays in our society is changing. Institutions and corporations collect vast amounts of information about us. Individuals contribut... -
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: Modeling John Donne's Gunpowder Day Sermon
Seth Denbo | Feb 1, 2015
On November 5, 1622, John Donne, then rector of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, gave a sermon that commemorated the day 17 years before when the notor... -
Ghosts and Monsters: Human-Scale Digital History at #RRCHNM20
Seth Denbo | Jan 1, 2015
Several years ago I was small cog in a large digital humanities project distributed across three continents. The project had the admirable goal of bre... -
Doing History Digitally: Taking Advantage of Training Opportunities to Learn New Methods and Approaches
Seth Denbo | Dec 1, 2014
Military historians are blessed. The object of their study, in the course of its daily existence, creates vast storehouses bursting with archival mate...
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The Paperless Archive
Seth Denbo | Nov 1, 2014
In 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported on the apparent disappearance of thousands of e-mails sent b... -
Linking the Past: History and the Semantic Web
Seth Denbo | Oct 1, 2014
Discovery,” historian Steven Lubar argued in a blog post on how the digital environment is changing ... -
More than “Map Porn”? The Pleasures and Pitfalls of the Historical Gaze
Robert K. Nelson | Oct 1, 2014
Afew months ago my colleagues and I at the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond rel... -
Mapping the History Twittersphere
Vanessa Varin | Sep 2, 2014
One hundred and forty characters doesn’t sound substantial, but as Twitter has proven in the last ei... -
Tweeps Discover the Past
Vanessa Varin | Apr 1, 2014
On the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination last November, several news and media organizations...
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