images, teaching, technology…..
I shouldn’t be writing this. I should be commenting on student project proposals and working on an article that is three weeks overdue. And, that is exactly why I’m writing this. Recently at RRCHNM we’ve been having a lot of discussion about why some of us offer much less in the way of public commentary …
Prompted by a twitter conversation with Miriam Posner about the need for a really basic introduction to using blogs in the college classroom, I’ve been reflecting on the ways that I’ve come to use public writing in my own teaching over the last fifteen years or so — both on the level of changing technology, …
[Cross-posted from the Visualizing the Past blog for the NCPH2012 working group “Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections”] In the very useful survey of the “history web” in their 2005 book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web , Dan …
… for American Studies Senior Seminar participants. Below are some places to start with work for a larger project of historical research. These are by no means prescriptive, but rather are drawn from my own years of work — including the year I spent working on a thesis for American Studies at Georgetown 15 years …
It’s snowing here in Pittsburgh–been coming down for hours in a fine powder, resulting in a monochromatic morning. Just like everywhere else in the country, there hasn’t been much real winter here this season. I’m pretty sure that this is only the third or fourth substantial coating so far. The slow start to the day …