Writing History in the Digital Age

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2013
Author
Language
English
Number of Pages
283 pp.
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
City
Ann Arbor, MI
Demographics
ISBN
9780472052066
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Is (digital) history more than an argument about the past? /; Sherman Dorn
  • Pasts in a digital age /; Stefan Tanaka
  • "I nevertheless am a historian": digital historical practice and malpractice around black Confederate soldiers /; Leslie Madsen-Brooks
  • The historian's craft, popular memory, and Wikipedia /; Robert S. Wolff
  • The Wikiblitz : a Wikipedia editing assignment in a first-year undergraduate class /; Shawn Graham
  • Wikipedia and women's history : a classroom experience /; Martha Saxton
  • Toward teaching the introductory history course, digitally /; Thomas Harbison and Luke Waltzer
  • Learning how to write analog and digital history /; Adrea Lawrence
  • Teaching Wikipedia without apologies /; Amanda Seligman
  • Historical research and the problem of categories : reflections on 10,000 digital note cards /; Ansley T. Erickson
  • Creating meaning in a sea of information : the Women and social movements Web sites /; Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin
  • The hermeneutics of data and historical writing /; Fred Gibbs and Trevor Owens
  • Visualizations and historical arguments /; John Theibault
  • Putting Harlem on the map /; Stephen Robertson
  • Pox and the city : challenges in writing a digital history game /; Laura Zucconi, Ethan Watrall, Hannah Ueno, and Lisa Rosner
  • Writing Chicana/o history with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project /; Oscar Rosales Castañeda
  • Citizen scholars : Facebook and the co-creation of knowledge /; Amanda Grace Sikarskie
  • The HeritageCrowd Project : a case study in crowdsourcing public history /; Shawn Graham, Guy Massie, and Nadine Feuerherm
  • The accountability partnership : writing and surviving in the digital age /; Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Sarah Manekin
  • Only typing? : informal writing, Blogging, and the academy /; Alex Sayf Cummings and Jonathan Jarrett
  • Conclusions : what we learned from Writing history in the digital age /; Jack Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzi, Charlotte D. Rochez, and Timothy Burke
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