Digital History

This past week, I romped through Mark Amerika’s newest book Remixthebook (Minneapolis 2011). As with his previous non-fiction-ish offerings, this book defied categorizing and description. I was mostly a meditation on his creative process taking as a point of departure his creative work as a performance VJ, as an author, and as a critic. He… Read More →

This past week, Robert Darnton published a curious opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I am sure that by now, more qualified bloggers have already puzzled over this column where Darnton positively obliterates several strawmen (strawpersons?) about our digital future. Darnton begins his brief reflections by identifying and refuting five myths of the… Read More →

This semester I am once again directing a public/digital history practicum. The goal of this little course, like the one before it, is to develop a digital history collection that might be of interest to some kind of public. The course is designed for a small group of students with almost no background in digital… Read More →