Writing History in the Digital Age

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Year of Publication
2013
Contributors Editor: Jack Dougherty
Editor: Kristen Nowrotzki
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Number of Pages
283 pp.
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
City
Ann Arbor, MI
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ISBN
9780472052066
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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