Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers

This is a pre-print version of this article. The final, edited version will appear in the online edition of American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015)…The Viral Texts Project is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort among the authors listed here, with contributions from project alumni Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Kevin Smith, and Peter Roby. In the first […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Zotero Web Developer

The Zotero team is looking to hire a full-time developer to help extend the Zotero ecosystem. For more information, see our Stack Overflow ad: Web Developer for Open-Source Global Research Platform at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media 

Editors' Choice

The Sweep of History

Many if not most contemporary historians would probably agree with the statement that “the typical mode of explanation used by historians [is] narrative.” (Roberts 2001) Storytelling, then, is not the difference between history and fiction. Instead, we could say, the scope of the story is what differentiates historical and fictional writing. For the past four months, […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Women In Technological History Travel Grant: SHOT Meeting in Albuquerque 2015

From the announcement: The SHOT Special Interest Group for Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2015. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented […]

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Job: Web Administrator and Digital Access Coordinator, Chicago State University

From the posting: Chicago State University Library seeks a creative individual with outstanding organizational skills and knowledge of library services to serve as Web Administrator and Digital Access Coordinator responsible for library digital and web services in the Library Technical Services Department. In addition to essential librarian duties, the applicant will be responsible for set […]