a few posts from over the last decade.
I began working seriously on digital history roughly ten years ago. Looking back, as any historian should do, here are selected essays and posts focused on research methods and a few other topics. Much more if you scroll through the pages of the Issues in Digital History blog.
Mapping, Spatial Approaches, Networks, Data Analysis
Revising Humbead’s Revised Map of the World
Mapping Humbead’s Map Interactively
Humbead’s Map Folk Music Data Viz
What Does Digital Humanities Bring to the Table?
Timelines & “Master” Narratives
Annotation
Writing On The Past, Literally (Actually, Virtually)
What Does Digital Humanities Bring to the Table?
Glitching & Remixing Images & Sound
Distorting History (To Make It More Accurate)
A Foreign Sound To Your Ear: Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation
When Mississippi John Hurt’s Head Moved
What Does A Photograph Sound Like?
Sonification & Cultural History
Podcasting & Sound Analysis
Spotify Playlists for Historical Analysis
Digitizing Folk Music History Student Showcase (including commentary on student podcast projects)
Historiography
Going Meta on Metadata (First posted as Digital Historiography & the Archives—Going Meta on Metadata)
Teaching
Digitizing Folk Music History—Reflections 1
Digitizing Folk Music History—Reflections 2
Miscellaneous
Toward a Definition of Digital Public History
Five Hypotheses for Digital History
Digital History Beyond Bells and Whistles
Digital Analysis vs. Communication
Cultural Histories of the Atlantic World Reconceptualized Digitally & Interculturally—Notes on the Atlantic World Forum Project