Tuesday Jan 26 Introductions
- Computing and the Historical Imagination
- Pasts in a Digital Age
- Is (Digital) History More Than an Argument about the Past?
- The Pasts and Futures of Digital History
Assignment:
1. create accounts on zotero.org and dropbox.com
2. reply to the Intro post on the course blog
Tuesday Feb 02
- The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings [PDF in Blackboard]
- Michel Trouillot 1-31 [PDF on Blackboard]
- The Humanities, Done Digitally
- So You Want to Reuse Digital Heritage Content
- Some Tips for WordPress Beginners
- “Real Names” Are an Abuse of Power
- Creating Your Web Presence
- Do Digital Natives Exist? (video autoplays)
Tuesday Feb 09
- Is Google Knowledge? (video autoplays)
- Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon
- Life on the Outside
Assignment: Choose 3 of the following DH projects to review
- UAlbany Campus Buildings Historical Tour
- The Normal School Company & Normal School Company History
- State Street Stories
- Black and Free
- Valley of the Shadow
- Arabella Chapman Project
- Mapping Segregation
- Digital Harlem
- The Negro Traveler’s Green Book
- Visualizing Emancipation
- Cleveland Historical
- Quantifying Kissinger
- Invasion of America
- Pox Americana
- Mapping the Republic of Letters
Tuesday Feb 16
- Digitisation’s Most Wanted
- It’s History, Not a Viral Feed
- A Protest Bot So Specific You Can’t Mistake it For Bullshit
- Slave Sales on Twitter
- Every3Minutes
- “I Nevertheless Am a Historian”: Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers
- The Historian’s Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia
- Omeka in the Classroom [May need to be on the university network or login with NetID through library website first]
Assignment:
1. transcribe your assigned page of the 1850/1860 census
Tuesday Feb 23
- The History Manifesto (excepting chapters 1 and 3)
- Introduction to Spreadsheets
- Datavisualization Basics
Assignment:
- Sum 1810 Census
- Visualize 1850/1860 Census
Tuesday Mar 01
- Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
- Following Up on Paul Revere
- Introduction to Network Analysis
- The Complete n00b’s Guide to Gephi
- Introduction to Network Analysis and Visualization
- Mapping Shakespeare’s Tragedies
- A Company of These Women (Blackboard)
- Archives of Connection (Blackboard)
Assignment:
- Historiography paper due
Tuesday Mar 08
- Where are the Individuals in Data-Driven Narratives?
- Reading Digital Sources
- A Tour Through The Visualization Zoo
- Visualizations and Historical Arguments
- How to Lie with Data Visualization
- Five Ways to Lie With Charts
- Avoiding Data Pitfalls
- Goldilocksing Your Graphs
Tuesday Mar 15 Spring Break
Tuesday Mar 22
Assignment: Walking tour due (Master’s and undergraduate)
Tuesday Mar 29
- Being Historical: How Strategy Games are Changing Popular History
- Historical Games – Why Mechanics Must Be Both Good and Accurate (video autoplays)
- Surviving History: The Fever!
- History as it Can Be Played: A New Public History?
Tuesday Apr 05
- Movie NGrams
- Bookworm
- Historic Newspaper NGrams
- Mining the Dispatch
- NYT Chronicle
- Voyant
- Getting Started with Voyant
- Comparing Corpora in Voyant
Tuesday Apr 12 Cool Junk Week
- Where to Start?
- How to get a Digital Humanities Project off the Ground
- You Got the Documents, Now What?
Interactive Text
Physical Computing
- Arudino.cc
- Arudinos Provide Interactive Exhibits for About $30
- Interactive History demo
- New Media Art, Design, and the Arduino Microcontroller: A Malleable Tool
3D Printing
- Please Feel the Museum
- Harvard’s 3D-Printing Archaeologists Fix Ancient Archaeologists
- Smithsonian x 3D
- 3D Scanning, Hacking, and Printing in Art Museums, for the Masses
Tuesday Apr 19 Workshop Day
Tuesday Apr 26 Workshop Day
Tuesday May 03 Workshop Day
Final projects due online 10AM Thursday May 12 – if you would like feedback on your project before turning it in, please email or post a draft to the course blog by 10AM May 9