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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Working on hypertext non-fiction

Pardon the lull in postings. After my two most recent posts, I decided to do one of my favorite things - put theory into practice. So, that being said, I have created another blog. However, this blog is not so much for blogging, but rather, the blog format works wonderfully for creating hypertext narrative. The [...]

Food for thought - a little combination of digital history and the Civil War

I have a digital history project in mind and would like to see if it is feasible. For starters, for anyone reading this blog, what do you consider the top 25 (if we can come up with that many) most controversial topics (excluding battle/military leader-related) pertaining to the Civil War?

Looking back on the first week of blogging

After about a week of blogging I find myself looking back on my posts and asking myself if I am blogging or writing articles. What is the prescribed method (if one exists) of blogging digital history? I’ve looked at a number of blogs within the digital history genre and within the Civil War memory/American Civil [...]

More thoughts on digital history as interactive narrative

With an ever-pressing desire to explore new ways of presenting history, I find it difficult reading through George P. Landow’s Hypertext 3.0 without continually trying to figure out how the theories and applications can work within the practice of digital history. This is especially the case when considering that relatively few digital history sites have gone [...]