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Bibliography

THEORETICAL

History of Computing

Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.

Friedman, Ted. Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

Gillies, James and Cailliau, Robert. How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Hafner, Katie and Lyon, Matthew. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Licklider, J. C. R. "Man-Computer Symbiosis."  IRE Transactions On Human Factors In Electronics. Vol. HFE-1 (March 1960): 4-11.

Naughton, John. A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000.

Rheingold, Howard. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. New York: Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall, 1985, reprint, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.

Segaller, Stephen. Nerds: A Brief History of the Internet. New York: TV Books, L.L.C., 1998.

Thomas III, William G. "Computing and the Historical Imagination." in A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2004, 56-68.

Waldrop, M. Mitchel. The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution that made Computing Personal. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

Digital Humanities

Bell, David A. The Bookless Future.  The New Republic, 2 May 2005.

Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Burton, Orville Vernon, ed. Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Censer, Jack and Lynn Hunt. "Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd."  American Historical Review 110, no. 1 (February 2005), 38-45. Refers to the web site online at http://www.chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/home.html.

Cotkin, George. "Hyping the Text: Hypertext, Postmodernism, and the Historian." American Studies, 37, no. 2 (1996): 103-116.

Darnton, Robert. "No Computer Can Hold the Past."  New York Times, 12 June 1999.

_______. "The New Age of the Book."  New York Times, 18 March 1999.

_______. "A Program for Reviving the Monograph."  AHA Perspectives 37, no. 3 (March 1999).

Liu, Alan. The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Moulthrop, Stuart. "You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media." in Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth, eds., Essays in Postmodern Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 69-97.

_______. "You Say You Want a Revolution? Hyper Text and the Laws of Media." in The New Media Reader ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003, 691-704.

O'Donnell, James J. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Rabinovitz, Lauren and Geil, Abraham, eds. Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

History and Computing

Denley, Peter, Fogelvik, Stefan, and Charles Harvey, eds. History and Computing II. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1989.

Denley, Peter and Hopkin, Deian, eds. History and Computing. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1987.

Staley, David J. Computers, Visualization, and History. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003.

Digital History

Ayers, Edward L. "The Pasts and Futures of Digital History." Virginia Center for Digital History (1999). Online at http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/PastsFutures.html

_______. "History in Hypertext."  Virginia Center for Digital History (1999). Online at http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/Ayers.OAH.html

Burton, Orville Vernon. "American Digital History."  Social Science Computer Review, 23 no. 2 (summer 2005): 206-220. Online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=30

Cohen, Daniel J. and Rosenzweig, Roy. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Cohen, Daniel J. "History and the Second Decade of the Web."  Rethinking History 8, no.2 (June 2004): 293-301. Online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=34

Darnton, Robert. "An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris."  Presidential Address. American Historical Review 105, no. 1 (February 2000).

Ethington, Philip J. "Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge."  American Historical Review 105, no. 5 (December 2000), 1667. Online at http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/historylab/LAPUHK/index.html.

O'Malley, Michael and Rosenzweig, Roy. "Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web." Journal of American History 84, no. 1 (June 1997): 132-155. Online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=13

Rosenzweig, Roy. "The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web." Journal of American History 88, no.2 (September 2001): 548-79. Online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/essay.php?id=9

Smith, Carl. "Can You Do Serious History on the Web?" AHA Perspectives 36, no. 2 (Feb. 1998). Online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/serioushistory.php

Thomas III, William G. and Edward L. Ayers "An Overview: The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities."  American Historical Review 108, no. 5 (December 2003), 1299-1307. Online at http://www.historycooperative.org/ahr

Trinkle, Dennis, A. ed. Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age: Historians and Computers. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.

APPLIED

Project Planning

Palmer, Carole L. "Thematic Research Collections."  chapter 24 in, A Companion to Digital Humanities Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2004, 348-365.

Pitti, Daniel V. "Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications." chapter 31 in, A Companion to Digital Humanities Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2004, 471-487.

Copyright

U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Eldred v. Ashcroft decision, January 15, 2003 (a lawsuit challenging the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998): http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/01-618.pdf

Scanning and Digital Imaging

Conway, Paul. Digital Technology Made Simpler, Technical Leaflet, Section 5, Leaflet 4. Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1999. Online at http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf54.htm

Cornell University. "Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorials." Online at http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial

Deegan, Marilyn and Simon Tanner. "Conversion of Primary Sources." A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2004, 488-504.

Sobchack, Vivian. "Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime."  Millennium Film Journal 34 (fall 1999): 4-23.

Smith, Abby. "Why Digitize?" Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999. Online at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html

Western States Digital Standards Group, Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices,  Version 1.0 (January 2003). Online at http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/documents/WSDIBP_v1.pdf

Electronic Text and Markup

Bosak, Jon and Tim Bray. "XML and the Second-Generation Web."  Scientific American (May 6, 1999) 2-1/2 pages. Online at http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0008C786-91DB-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF.

Hockey, Susan. "Why Electronic Texts?",  chapter 1, and "Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts",  chapter 2 in, Electronic Texts in the Humanities London: Oxford University Press, 2000, 1-10, 11-23.

Renear, Allen H. "Text Encoding." A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2004, 218-239.

Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. "What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care?" Online at http://xml.coverpages.org/sperbergDRH97.html.

GIS

Knowles, Anne Kelly, Ed. Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History. Redlands, CA: ESRI, 2002.

Design and Navigation

Horton, Sarah. Web Teaching Guide: A practical Approach to Creating Course Web Sites. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Lynch, Patrick J. and Sarah Horton, Eds. Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Second edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. So the Colors Cover the Wires : Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability,  chapter 34 in, A Companion to Digital Humanities Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications, 2004, 523-542.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.

Staley, David J. "Designing and Displaying Historical Information in the Electronic Age," Journal of the Association for History and Computing 1, no. 1 (June 1998). Online at http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/jahcI1/Staley/design.htm

Narrative & Writing for Digital Media

Bonime, Andrew and Ken C. Pohlmann, Writing for New Media: The Essential Guide to Writing for Interactive Media, CD-ROMs, and the Web (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998).

Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.

Ryan, Marie-Laure. "Will New Media Produce New Narratives?" in Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

PEDAGOGY

Barrett, Edward, Deborah A. Levinson and Suzana Lisanti. The MIT Guide to Teaching Web Site Design. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.

Syllabi

Seefeldt, Douglas. History 470 Syllabus. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Seefeldt, Douglas. History 470/870 Digital History Graduate Student Supplement. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Thomas III, William G. History 970 Syllabus. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Seefeldt, Douglas. History 970 Syllabus. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.



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