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.

Events

Frontiers in Digital History Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax County, Virginia, April 3-5, 2009.

Digital Humanities 2009 Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, June 22-25, 2009.

Fourth Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 2-3, 2009.

Recent News

SUNY-Albany has introduced a 36-credit History and Media concentration to its Masters program and will be accepting its first students in Fall 2009. The program concentrates on learning and applying specialized media skills in digital history and hypermedia authoring, photography and photoanalysis, documentary filmmaking, oral/video history, and aural history and audio documentary production.

Google and the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond have partnered up to create Google Earth and Google Map historical overlays to analyze state and county voting results from 1980 through 2004. Voting America also includes demographic information from the U. S. census that allows users to get a county-level look at how populations have voted over time. The collaboration builds on the Digital Scholarship Lab's Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2004, which explores the last 164 of American presidential politics through a wide array of cinematic and interactive maps.

The September 2008 issue of the Journal of American History contains an interchange between the leading digital historians about the definition of digital history, teaching digital history, and the resources needed to do digital history.

The 123rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City, held January 2-5, 2009, features several panels that might be of interest to digital historians. The panels include "The Past of the Future or the Future of the Past? Perspectives on Digital Historical Monographs from Gutenberg-e Authors" on January 2nd, "Old Stuff, New Tricks: How Archives Are Making Special Collections Even More Special Using Web 2.0 Technologies" on January 3rd, "Teaching History in the Digital Age" on January 4th, and "GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Historical Inquiry into the Early Modern Atlantic World" on January 5th.

Digital History has launched the Doing Digital History blog to showcase the development of history research projects and to discuss tools and methods in the process of doing digital history. The initial blog posts feature an extension of a conference panel comprised of Nathan Sanderson, Leslie Working, and Kurt Kinbacher, who presented their work at the Western History Association Conference in Salt Lake City in October 2008.

In Memoriam

Roy Rosenzweig, 1950-2007

Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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