The Greatest Machine That Never Was
The Greatest Machine That Never Was The computer was invented in the 30s: not the 1930s, but the 1830s. British mathematician Charles Babbage designed and prototyped a fully functional mechanical...
View ArticleMellon Supports DH Program At USC
U. of Southern California Gets Mellon Money to Train Digital Scholars This is wonderful news for those of us who are dedicated to integrating Digital Humanities theory and methods into discipline-based...
View ArticleStill Playing Catch-Up
“Still Playing Catch-Up” is an insightful bit of research by Cameron Blevins featuring a masterful use of digital humanities tools posted to his blog, Historying: Thoughts on Scholarship and History in...
View ArticleDH Tools for Beginners
DH Tools for Beginners A collection of tutorials written for digital humanities novices. Got a favorite tool? Submit your tutorial! Created by Quinn Warnick Assistant professor of digital rhetoric at...
View ArticleHarvard Gazette: “Prospects for Digital Humanities”
I attended #THATCampHarvard last Saturday & got a great deal from it. "Prospects for Digital Humanities" http://t.co/EPxrYP9g8I via @harvard — Douglas Seefeldt (@dougseefeldt) October 1, 2014
View ArticleProfessor Seefeldt Awarded Harvard Fellowship
Ball State University Department of History CLIO newsletter post on my 2014-15 Charles Warren Center Fellowship: Professor Seefeldt Awarded Harvard Fellowship
View ArticleWait…Western History Matters? Why Have We Never Heard About This Before?
Wait…Western History Matters? Why Have We Never Heard About This Before? A timely post by Brenden Rensink.
View ArticleThe Enduring Global Legacy of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
The C-SPAN 3 broadcast of our panel discussion is now online : The Enduring Legacy of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West A roundtable discussion featuring Jeremy Johnston, Buffalo Bill Center of the West;...
View ArticleNew DH Books Ordered!
I just posted to the Digital Humanities Knowledge Group blog a list of some of the digital humanities and digital history titles that I ordered for the Bracken Library holdings with my share of the...
View ArticleFall 2015 Course: HIST 661: Seminar in Digital History
Flyer for my Fall 2015 course HIST 661: Seminar in Digital History at Ball State University
View ArticleNEH honors two Ball State projects
National Endowment for the Humanities names What Middletown Read, The Real Buffalo Bill as ‘top grant projects’ September 30, 2015 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has singled out two...
View ArticleBall State gives Buffalo Bill’s Wild West a virtual makeover
October 12, 2015 Cowboys and Indians captivated the country when Buffalo Bill’s Wild West rolled through America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. More than a century later, Ball State digital artists...
View ArticleThis Just In…
What began as an invited lecture to speak to the faculty of Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center in Omaha, NE along the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail in the summer of 2012 has...
View ArticleBut Wait…There’s More!
Arriving in my mailbox on the same day as the other volume, A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign contains a long essay, “A National Monument,” that I researched and wrote in...
View ArticleHistorian Will Bagley visits Ball State U. history class
Last February, western historian Will Bagley joined my HIST 318/518: History of the American West class to discuss his recent book that I had assigned, South Pass: Gateway to a Continent (2014). Bagley...
View ArticleHistorian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer visits Ball State U. history class
On May 2, 2016, historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer made a “Virtual Visit” to my HIST 318/518: History of the American West course to discuss her book that I had assigned that semester, Sunbelt...
View ArticleErnie LaPointe, Great-grandson of Sitting Bull, visits Ball State U. class
On Monday, September 19 and Tuesday, September 20, 2016, Ernie LaPointe, a Great-grandson to Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull, visited Ball State University to give a public talk and to speak with...
View ArticleHistorian Jeremy Johnston visits Ball State U. Class
Last April, western historian Jeremy Johnston joined my HIST 318/518: History of the American West class on Friday, April 1, 2016 to discuss William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s role in reclamation in the...
View ArticleBSU Graduate Students Participate in THATCamp Indiana 2016
Seven Ball State graduate students and I made the over 2-1/2-hour drive up to South Bend to participate in THATCamp Indiana 2016 held at the Center for Digital Scholarship in the Hesburgh Library on...
View ArticleBall State History Graduate Students Recognized for Advanced Digital History...
At the Ball State University Department of History Honors, Scholarships, and Recognition Ceremony held on Sunday, April 10, 2016, I had the honor of recognizing two graduate students who had created...
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