HIS 6165 - Digital Tools for Historians

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Genealogies of the digital humanities -- On the way to computational thinking -- Knowledge representation & archives -- Research infrastructures -- Digital methods & tools -- Digital scholarship & interface criticism -- Towards a critical digital humanities

Beyond GIS : geospatial technologies & the future of history -- Immobile history : an interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- The dawn of a golden age? : historical GIS & the history of choropleth mapping in the Netherlands -- (In)Digitizing Cáuigú historical geographies : technoscience as a postcolonial discourse -- Place in time : GIS & the spatial imagination in teaching history -- "Thou shalt make no graven maps!" : an interview with Gunnar Olsson -- Vernacular GIS : mapping early modern geography and socioeconomics -- Mapping miracles : early medieval hagiography & the potential of GIS -- The role of knowledge spaces in geographically-oriented history -- Writing visual histories : an interview with David J. Staley -- GIS & research into historical "spaces of practice" : overcoming the epistemological barriers -- GIS & history : epistemologies, reflections, & considerations -- Maps of change : a brief history of the American historical atlas -- Tracking in a new territory : re-imaging GIS for history

GIS & its role in historical research: an introduction -- GIS: a framework for representing the Earth’s surface -- Building historical GIS databases -- Basic approaches to handling data in a historical GIS -- Using GIS to visualise historical data -- Time in historical GIS databases -- Geographic Information Retrieval: historical geographic information on the internet & in digital libraries -- GIS & quantitative spatial analysis -- From techniques to knowledge: historical GIS in practice

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Part 1: Re-Visioning Historical Writing: Is (Digital) History More than an Argument about the Past? -- Pasts in a Digital Age -- Part 2: The Wisdom of Crowds(ourcing): "I Nevertheless Am a Historian" : Digital Historical Practice & Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers -- The Historian's Craft, Popular Memory & Wikipedia -- The Wikiblitz - A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in a First-Year Undergraduate Class -- Wikipedia & Women's History: A Classroom Experience -- Part 3: Practice What You Teach (and teach what you practice): Toward Teachig the Introductory History Course, Digitally -- Learning How to Write Analog & Digital History -- Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies -- Part 4: Writing with the Needles from Your Data Haystack: Historical Research & the Problem of Categories: Reflections on 10,000 Digital Note Cards -- Creating Meaning in a Sea of Information: The WOmen & Social Movements Web Sites -- The Hermeneutics of Data & Historical Writing -- Part 5: See What I Mean? Visual, Spatial, & Game-Based History: Visualizations & Historical Arguments -- Putting Harlem on the Map -- Pox & the City: Challenges in Writing a Digital History Game -- Part 6: Public History on the Web: If You Build It, Will They Come?: Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights & Labor HIstory Project -- Citizen Scholars: Facebook & the Co-creation of Knowledge -- The HeritageCrowd Project: A Case Study in Crowdsourcing Public History -- Part 7: Collaborative Writing: Yours, Mine, & Ours: The Accountabliilty Partnership: Writing & Surviving in the Digital Age -- Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging, & the Academy -- Conclusions: What We Learned from Writing History in the Digital Age