Memorializing the First White Child
So, I’ve been researching my genealogy and discovering all sorts of cool and crazy things, some credible (distant grandparents among the first settlers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, others arriving...
View ArticleMy example story
Here is where I try to write it. Halite Cartoon This cartoon … from Cleveland Press Collection by
View ArticleVisualizing Oral History?
(crossposted at Visualizing the Past) The oxymoron embedded in the title reveals the contradiction behind any attempt to “visualize” oral history for historical curation. One could argue that oral...
View Articlehow widely read are you?
I noted at the annual National Council of Public History meeting that about 70% of academic journal articles were not being read in the context of arguing for open access and new measures of assessing...
View ArticleMobile Learning Workshops
So, our question of the morning is how do we transform our K-12 history classrooms into sights of mobile learning, of informal teaching & learning? Let’s jump off the ledge. Why are we jumping? We...
View Articlein media res
This post is a draft of my contribution to a discussion of mobile on In Media Res during the week of 5/21. Download Cleveland Historical (iOS and Android) after viewing the videos to get a sense of how...
View ArticleAmelia and I are posting
Amelia and I are posting, cause she’s been doing her own weebly blog. I am showing her how to add links, such as this one to the cultural gardens, or even photos. This is fun. by
View Articlea changing electorate
Amazing night last night on so many levels, beyond the outcome. Beginning with a bit of a guilty pleasure, I turned the channel to Faux News just as Ohio was being called to savor the victory just a...
View ArticleHow much does digital humanities count?
How much does the digital humanities count? Even in what you might term the year of the Digital Humanities (2012–but pick your own date), this is a vital question for the digital humanities, not to...
View ArticleCuratescape
We’re excited that Curatescape is being adopted. Present deployments thru April 2013 in blue; deployments scheduled for Spring & Summer 2013 in Purple; Projects in Green are funded and under...
View ArticleWhy State Humanities Councils & Museum Commissions Matter
Recently, I was invited by the Ohio Humanities Council to spend an afternoon with colleagues from around Ohio to brainstorm about how some of the council’s grant standards could be updated for the...
View ArticleWhy Open Review Matters
The emperor has no clothes. Or so I declare in a comment on a post at the brilliant public history blog, History at Work. I didn’t mean to spoil the feel-good digital party at History at Work, really....
View ArticleOpen as a Value
I have watched the #AHAGATE with fascination. You can read about it at Open History, http://openhistory.uservoice.com/, as well as the blogs of a host of colleagues. Among the broader perspectives that...
View Articledigital identity
As I begin a new gig directing public history at Arizona State University, I’ve had to rethink a whole number of things about my career and digital identity. So much of my professional life had been...
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Exploring images
Consider the following two images of the Salt River in Phoenix, from the Mill Avenue Bridge. The former is a flood of the Salt River in 1938....
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Floods & Community on the Salt River
I have been spending to much time this semester putting out fires to really luxuriate in just how interesting my new city in the midst of a Sonoran desert can be. I’ve been blown away by the diversity...
View Articlesustainability and public history
Today, as I prepared for a discussion with sustainability scholars about digital tools and sustainability, I found myself mulling sustainable public history, which is the theme of the NCPH this year....
View ArticleMy Princeton Interview or Remembering Nelson Mandela
I remember when I first really encountered Nelson Mandela. I was 18 and interviewing for admission to Princeton University. It was Autumn 1983. As I sat in a Steak-n-Shake sipping a malt, my...
View ArticlePerforming the Book
As a scholar, I’ve long been inspired by Julio Cortazar’s comments that great writing is like Jazz—improvised, in the moment or “the take.” The best public history and digital humanities, I’ve argued,...
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