What makes an historian a “digital historian?”

Just some passing thoughts today. I say passing because I’m more preoccupied with completing three final projects for the semester. One more week to go and the spring semester of ‘08 is history!
Nevertheless, in the past few days, I’ve been thinking about digital history as a practice. Is it really ok to say that by [...]

An unconventional use of blog space — the rough draft of my hypertext nonfiction, “Being Cenantua”

It’s most certainly a work in-progress, but for what it’s worth, I’m opening access to my hypertext nonfiction, ”Being Cenantua.” Personally, I consider the site currently on par with a construction site in an early stage (READER BEWARE — there are “dead links.” O.K., by definition, they don’t necessarily qualify as “dead links,” the hyperlinked pages just haven’t [...]

When saying “I am studying Web design” just isn’t enough

It’s been quite a while since I posted on anything relating directly to digital history, but the impulse struck me today. Granted, by writing this blog, I have been, to some degree, doing digital history. Yet, I haven’t posted much on theory or anything else that goes along with what really is digital history.
To recap a little… after wrapping [...]

Technical difficulties… with footnotes

I usually create my posts through Mozilla Firefox. However, tonight, when I reviewed my post from yesterday, I realized, on my home computer where I use Internet Explorer, the footnotes aren’t showing up like they did in Firefox. Soooo, to those who have suffered through viewing my post of 4/1 with IE, please pardon the error. [...]

Valley of the Shadow Project and Civil War Memory

I had planned on posting about something to do with Southern Unionists today, but in the course of deciding exactly what I wanted to write about (and after a little Web navigation), I came across something that I wanted to pass along. Most in Civil War era studies are probably aware of the Valley [...]

The Civil War Blogosphere

I want to pause briefly this morning to say “thanks!” to those who have linked to this blog. By doing so, they inspire me to continue in this very interesting practice. Only a month old (as of 17 March), this blog was created as a project for my graduate course in hypertext theory. While the [...]

A Quick Tech-Note

Just a quick note to keep the digital history category active (not that it becomes inactive for lack of postings but that I want to keep postings active while I labor over my hypertext non-fiction project and read Bolter and Grusin’s Remediation)… I found this great site for up-to-date information about Web technology, ReadWriteWeb, and [...]

Virtual booksignings

I have to admit, this was new to me. I had never heard of virtual booksignings until I first saw a listing for such a thing on Civil War Interactive. I followed the link from CWI to VirtualBookSigning.net and was amazed. According to the website

Virtual Book Signing™ provides the excitement of attending a booksigning, without [...]

I think that Thomas Jefferson would have loved hypertext

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a couple of weeks and am just today getting around to it, but I can’t help but think that Thomas Jefferson would have loved the power of hypertext. After cutting out portions of the Bible and reorganizing those clippings in a way that reflected his beliefs (the Jefferson [...]

Hypertext non-fiction vs. Hypertext fiction

Just out of curiosity, I Googled “hypertext non-fiction” and then “hypertext fiction” to compare the number of hits that each would bring up. Remarkably, there were only 68 hits (though once I clicked on the second page of hits, I found only 23 active returns for the search. I should also note that when Googling [...]