Category: Readings

On Thursday morning we have a reading seminar scheduled. Please read the following short articles and watch the short video:

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279742/
2. https://www.nature.com/news/humanity-s-cultural-history-captured-in-5-minute-film-1.15650
3. http://historyonics.blogspot.com/2013/12/big-data-for-dead-people-digital.html

I would also like to encourage you to read the following article before my talk on Thursday:

1. Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,” The American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 377–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377. Author’s repository open access version: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21663/