Editors’ Summary: In this paper, the authors challenge the field of Digital Humanities’ current reliance on environmentally damaging digital infrastructures. They call for a fundamental transformation of the field through the adoption of an ethics of ecological care. This paper critiques DH’s complicity in extractive practices and digital techno-solutionism, and proposes a potential solution. Their […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Douglas A. Boyd introduces an open-source tool for comparing the accuracy of machine-generated transcriptions to determine which is best suited for your project. His tool, the Transcript Accuracy Auditor, compares a machine‑generated transcript to a human‑corrected reference of the same interview and provides a score for WIP (Word Information Preserved) […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice critiques DH for its entanglement with environmentally damaging digital infrastructures and asserts that DH is not neutral in the climate crisis. The authors propose a new framework that would reframe DH as a field in relation to the environment. The […]
Digital History Reviews appear quarterly in the Journal of American History, offering assessments on digital history projects that enhance and expand our understanding of and access to American history scholarship and resources. See full post.
Join us for Douglass Day 2026! Every Valentine’s Day, we invite you to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. Although Douglass never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14th. We celebrate this date as a moment for creating Black history together. How can I get involved? See full post.
On January 1, 2026, we celebrate published works from 1930 and published sound recordings from 1925 entering the public domain! Their arrival marks another chapter in our shared cultural heritage: the freedom to breathe new life into overlooked works, remix enduring classics, and circulate the oddities we discover in thrift stores, family attics, and forgotten […]
Understanding the social and historical context of data is essential for all responsible data work. We host datasets that are paired with rich documentation, data essays, and teaching resources, all of which draw on context and humanities perspectives and methods. We provide models for responsible data curation, documentation, story-telling, and analysis. Learn more about our […]
In this paper, we investigate the applicability of linguistic stylometry methods to authorship attribution in music. We compare the use of delta methods involving the the analysis of token frequencies with static embeddings generated by distributional semantic models (Word2Vec and Doc2Vec) for the stylometry analysis of music using a symbolic representation. For this purpose, a […]
Audrey Witters remembers the creativity of the early web. When she was launching her career in the mid-1990s, being online was more about exploring and having fun than figuring out how to make a return on investment. Witters said if you were curious about someone’s web page, you could simply click to see their code […]
The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School invites proposals for participation in the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, to be held on February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. The Black Information Futures Symposium seeks to create an expansive, interdisciplinary space for archivists, librarians, cultural heritage […]
