News

This information clearinghouse lists upcoming events as well as other items of interest to digital historians. To submit an event or news item, please e-mail William G. Thomas at wgt@unl.edu or Douglas Seefeldt at dseefeldt2@unl.edu.

In Memoriam

Roy Rosenzweig, 1950-2007

Events

American Historical Association, 122nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 3-6, 2008, including a Pre-Meeting Workshop on the intersection between teaching and research in the new media.

Digital Humanities 2008 Conference, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008

Third Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 10-11, 2008

ECHO Workshop, "Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology, and Industry," Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, July 12-15, 2007

Recent News

University of Nebraska-Lincoln historian, Dr. Kenneth Winkle, and English professor, Dr. Kenneth Price, have created "Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation," a digital history research project that explores Washington, D.C. from 1860-1864 as visualized through primary sources, particularly the writings of President Abraham Lincoln and poet Walt Whitman. An article on Winkle and Price's project is featured in the latest edition of Research News, published by the UNL Office of Research.

A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004 is now available in full-text online. Digital historians will find Chapter 5, "Computing and the Historical Imagination," by William G. Thomas, III, of particular interest.

The May, 2007 issue of the American Historical Association's Perspectives, "History and the Changing Landscape of Information," contains works on a variety of issues of interest to digital historians.

Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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