Category «Scholarship»

21st Century Public History, Part II

This is a revised and expanded version of a talk I gave at MITH’s Digital Dialogue series on April 14. It is Part II of III. Read Part I. II. Digital Public History and Traditional Narrative Exhibits Everyday those of us who work in the digital humanities see new online work that changes the way …

NEH awards a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to CHNM for Crowdsourcing Transcription Tool

CHNM is pleased to announce an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities to support the design and development of a tool for crowdsourcing documentary transcription. The $49,215 award will enable CHNM’s dev team to to build an open source tool to enable researchers to contribute document transcriptions and research …

Bracero History Archive Wins NCPH Outstanding Public History Project Award

On Saturday, March 13, 2010, the CHNM’s Bracero History Archive received the National Council on Public History’s award for “Outstanding Public History Project.” The award recognizes excellence in work completed within the previous two calendar years that contributes to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or that serves as a model of …