Editors' Choice

EC: History Slam Episode 150: Dope is Death

In the 1970s, Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs to combat, what he called, public enemy number one. In New York City, groups like the Black Panther Party and Young Lords recognized the damage addiction was doing to local communities, but also felt that federal efforts to combat drug use were doing more damage. […]

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Report: Report from Spring 2020 Executive Roundtable on Acquiring Instructional Materials

On March 30-31, 2020 as part of the CNI Spring virtual Member Meeting, we held two convenings of an Executive Roundtable on strategies for acquiring instructional materials; this included both open educational resources and “inclusive access” type arrangements. It also discussed experiences in providing instructional materials support for the sudden transition to remote instruction that […]

Job Announcements

Job: Postdoctoral researcher in Digital History – Academic Positions

The Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator (DHARPA) at C2DH is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher as part of a research project sponsored by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). The postdoctoral researcher will work under the supervision of Professor Sean Takats and join a team that already includes two other postdoctoral researchers, a software developer, […]

Reports

Report: CSDH / SCHN 2020 was brilliant online

Today was the last day of the CSDH / SCHN 2020 online conference. You can see my conference notes here. The conference had to go online due to Covid-19 and the cancellation of Congress 2020. That said, the online conference web brilliantly. Read more here.

Announcements

Announcement: Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities: pre-launch thoughts

Our co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities will be published shortly. Like many such volumes, this has matured in to being over time, and our own picture of what the volume is about, and what it should be for, has evolved as we have read and reviewed the 27 chapters of cutting-edge […]

CFPs & Conferences

CFPapers: 2020/21 Postgraduate Panel Call for Papers

Are you a postgraduate historian trying out some digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools and resources? Do you have a work-in-progress project? Are you seeking a friendly, critical environment in which to share your preliminary findings, successes, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Full-Text Search for Lessons

In an effort to make finding lessons more user-friendly, we’ve officially launched full-text searching for all our lessons. Previously you could use filter buttons to select lessons based on topic or activity, and sort them by date and difficulty. However, you weren’t able to find lessons based on their content. Read full post here.

CFPs & Conferences, News

Announcement: Disrupting Digital Monolingualism | Language Acts and Worldmaking

Welcome to the section for the Disrupting Digital Monolingualism workshop, a one-and-a-half day event which will be held online on June 16th and 17th 2020. The workshop is hosted by the Language Acts & Worldmaking project with the support of the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community project, both projects funded by the AHRC as part of […]

News, Resources

Resource: Guides for Visualizing Reality

We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though. Data comes from the realities. Here are several guides to help with visualizing these realities, which seem especially important these days. Read the full resource here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Uncharted: American Expeditions

.entry-header This semester my students made a podcast. I just realized that though I’ve talked a lot about the podcast, I haven’t actually linked to the podcast here. So here it is, for all three of you who read my blog. I’m super proud of how the students did on this assignment despite the many, […]