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CHNM is hiring a web developer to work on a wide range of exciting open source projects. Are you a creative programmer who is looking to work with an energetic and creative development team? Are you interested in working on the challenges presented by the effort to create usable, interactive, content-rich digital humanities projects? If …
For a few more hours, today is Father’s Day, and tomorrow marks the fourth anniversary of my own father’s death. Donald Leon was not an easy man to get to know–not much of a talker and extremely focused on his work. For the past few years I’ve struggled with how to mark his passing, especially …
CHNM is pleased to announce two grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), during the May 2010 funding cycle. [Cross posted from the CHNM blog.] First, NHPRC has awarded continued funding to the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800. This groundbreaking digital editorial project presents high resolution images of some 55,000 documents …
Facing the close of the the first decade of the twenty-first century, those of us involved in higher education cannot help but admit that in some very important ways our system is broken. For students finishing graduate programs, the prospects of landing a traditional tenure-track position are slim (see the torrent of bad news from …
On Sunday, I had the pleasure of organizing and facilitating a Digital-JumpStart session with Michael Edson at the American Association of Museums meeting in Los Angeles. We were joined and assisted by 30 wonderful facilitators and well over 100 participants. For 2:45 minutes we worked together in unconference style to share our lessons learn, questions …