This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a post calling for historians to make use of emerging technologies and embrace larger scale arguments. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, and tools, including a tool for reimagining remote research.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a reflection on the so-called objectivity of digital reconstructions, an article that underscores how many LLMs lack the cultural context of poetic motifs, and an investigation into the appearance of “hallucinated” citations in academic publishing. We have also included […]
A review of Corpora, a digital humanities data infrastructure, developed by Bryan Tarpley. See full post.
This is Lee. Are you as tired about talking about and dealing with AI as I am? As an academic technologist, my whole professional life has been taken over by “the AI conversation”. How can we stop students from using it? How can I AI-proof my course? HOW WILL STUDENTS LEARN?!?!?!?!? It’s only one conversation, […]
In the first episode of our three-part mini-series, Dr. Pam Lach talks about resisting big tech’s influence on higher ed, AI refusal, and what the future holds for AI and the university. Join the conversation! Dr. Pam Lach (she/her/hers) is the Digital Humanities Librarian at San Diego State University, which occupies the traditional lands of […]
This form is part of the #DHmakes Mail Art Collaboration for ACH 2026, a community-driven project that invites participants to create, share, and exchange small crafted or artistic works through the mail. Inspired by the spirit of a neighborhood “picnic,” this initiative brings together digital humanists, makers, and curious participants to connect through making, whether […]
The current experience of digital librarianship in the U.S. and around the world is defined in part by precarity and crisis. In March 2025, Trump issued an Executive Order that dismantled the IMLS; as of April 2026, his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year does not include IMLS funding. Demands to censor books representing […]
In recent years, the arts and humanities have seen a significant increase in the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches. This kind of research is distinguished by its reliance on formal methods and the development of explicit, computational models – ranging from quantitative and statistical techniques to broader computational methods for processing and analysing […]
We are looking for an experienced writer. The ideal candidate already writes single-authored pieces regularly and publicly for a non-specialist audience, builds arguments based on data and research, and has the range to cover many of the topics we work on. This is a senior role: the person we hire will work closely with Hannah […]
This database designed for students and educators highlights primary sources about the growth of the Black American community in Lënapehòkink, now called Philadelphia, from the 1600s to the 1800s. It includes petitions, newspaper articles, letters, objects, friendship albums, and more. See full post.
