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The History Highway
Save yourself and your students hours of research time. Now extensively revised and expanded, \"The History Highway\" is widely recognized as the one essential tool for students, teachers and researchers seeking a reliable guide to history sites on the web. \"The History Highway\" offers the broadest, most current coverage of the astonishing amount of historical information available on the Internet: provides detailed, easy-to-use, and up-to-date information on more than 3000 web sites; covers U.S. and World history and all sub-fields; features ten new chapters, with coverage of futurism, environmental history, immigration history, and Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history; all sites have been thoroughly checked by specialists in the relevant field of history; the best sites in each field are clearly identified; hard cover and paperback editions include a CD of the entire contents with live links to sites; and e-book version with live links to sites is in preparation.
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The genealogical sublime
\"Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood independently of the powerful technological tools that aid and abet in the search for traces of blood, belonging, and difference. In The Genealogical Sublime, Julia Creet traces the histories of the largest, longest-running, most lucrative, and most rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA technologies enable an obsessive completeness-the desire to gather all of the world's genealogical records in the interests of life beyond death. Archival research and firsthand interviews with Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints officials, key industry players (including Ancestry.com founders and FamilySearch executives), and professional and amateur family historians round out this timely and essential study.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age
This volume focuses on the role of the computer and electronic technology in the discipline of history. It includes representative articles addressing H-Net, scholarly publication, on-line reviewing, enhanced lectures using the World Wide Web, and historical research.
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The American History Highway
This brand new addition to the acclaimed \"History Highway\" series is essential for anyone conducting historical research on North, Central, or South America. Complete with a CD with live links to sites, it directs users to the best and broadest, most current information on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American history available on the Internet. \"The American History Highway\": provides detailed, easy-to-use information on more than 1,700 websites; covers all periods of U.S., Canadian, and Latin American History; features new coverage of Hispanic American and Asian American History; includes chapters on environmental history, immigration history, and document collections; all site information is current and up-to-date; includes a CD of the entire contents with live links to sites - just install the disc, go online, and link directly to the sites; and, also provides a practical introduction to web-based research for students and history buffs of all ages.
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Never lost again : the Google mapping revolution that sparked new industries and augmented our reality
\"The behind-the-scenes narrative of the creation of Google Maps and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how the world navigates\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Civil War Washington
While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War,Civil War Washingtonsets out to examine the nation's capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.
Among the many topics covered in the volume is the federal government's experiment in compensated emancipation, which went into effect when all of the capital's slaves were freed in April 1862. Another essay explores the city's place as a major center of military hospitals, patients, and medical administration. Other contributors reflect on literature and the war, particularly on the poetry published in hospital newspapers and Walt Whitman's formative experiences with the city and its wounded.
The digital project associated with this book offers a virtual examination of the nation's capital from multiple perspectives. Through a collection of datasets, visual works, texts, and maps, the digital project offers a case study of the social, political, cultural, and scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War. The book also provides insights into the complex and ever-shifting nature of ongoing digital projects while encouraging others to develop their own interpretations and participate in the larger endeavor of digital history.
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Virtual Victorians : networks, connections, technologies
\"Virtual Victorians offers new ways of thinking about issues of representation, technology, and media change in nineteenth-century literary culture, with specific deference to the emerging field of the digital humanities. The opening section, 'Navigating Networks,' deals with digital resources and asks how they are shaping the field of Victorian studies; the second, 'Virtual Imaginings,' considers Victorian technologies of virtual experience. As a whole, this volume demonstrates that understanding the aspirations and anxieties that attended Victorian virtuality will illuminate contemporary scholarly practice--and vice versa\"--Provided by publisher.
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Technology and the Historian
Charting the evolution of practicing digital
history Historians have seen their field transformed by
the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly
communication, the nature of the archive-all have undergone a sea
change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital
history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a
glaring blind spot among digital scholars.
Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and
oral histories to show how technology and historians have come
together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and
philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians
from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key
themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a
history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced
changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system
that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs
became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for
the continuing study of history in the digital era.
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