Chicago has always been a preeminently Catholic city. From the encampment French-Haitian Creole Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable first built upon Lake Michigan’s swampy banks in the 1770s to the steeples that continue to tower over the city of neighborhoods today, Catholicism has been integral to the city’s development. Parishes have structured neighborhoods, priests have […]
Mobile devices enable students and other non-professional historians to decode edificial remains, symbols etc. through giving access to additional information. In other words, mobile devices enrich reality: They reveal the historical value of topographic places and surfaces. The article “Mobile history Learning” delivers ideas for inquiry- and design-based learning with mobile devices. The authors try […]
Over the last few years I have been staging a practical and theoretical investigation of art historical media. I’ve been asking what are art history and criticism are made of? Of course, the simple answer is: words. When we interpret, contextualise and historicise artistic practice we, in the main, take something visual and turn that […]
Developed as part of an international, digitalhumanities project, Developing a NetworkedBased Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP), the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base is an openaccess, online database tracing activity in and around the field of electronic literature and the digital literary arts. Inspired by Ted Nelson’s […]
I am pleased to present Make It New? A dh+lib Mini-Series the ebook. It is available for download in epub and pdf format. This ebook is an experiment in publishing, demonstrating one way that openly-published works can be built upon and carried forward. It features the posts from Make It New? A dh+lib Mini-Series alongside […]
The PressForward project at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) now invites applications for a one-year position (with the possibility of renewal) at the rank of Research Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will work with the project directors to manage the publication of Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities, as well […]
In November 2012 the United States Postal Service reported a staggering deficit of $15.9 billion. For the historian, this begs the question: was it always this bad? Others have penned far more nuanced answers to this question, but my starting point is a lot less sophisticated: a table of yearly expenses and income. So, was the postal department always […]
“How people perished in the Ghetto – that I understand; what I cannot understand is how they lived.” — Chaim Grade. reVilna is a digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the ghetto functioned — even, given the circumstances, flourished — how it emerged, and how, ultimately, it was […]
The PressForward Plugin is a tool for aggregating and curating content from the web from within a WordPress dashboard. It is designed to support bloggers and editorial teams who wish to aggregate and share content from a variety of sources. The plugin provides an RSS reader within the WordPress dashboard, a tool for collaborative editorial work, and a process […]
This is part of a longer book project I coauthored with Jason Whittaker called William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media. I wanted to look at Blake as a test case for understanding how digital modalities can impact what literary studies means to us. In other words, I wanted to think about the […]
