GSU Library Research Guides: HIST 8885: Theory and Practice of Digital History: Getting Started: Resources

Resources for Historians

GSU Center for Instructional Innovation
Formerly the GSU Center for Teaching and Learning.
American Historical Association (AHA)
Resources on the job market, publications, and a very useful blog.
American Historical Association | Resources for History Graduate Students & Early Career Professionals
Includes job market advice, strategies for managing graduate school and early professional life, and other resources.
World History Association
Teaching and research resources and more.
H-Net
Discussion listservs, reviews, job listings (H-Net Job Guide).
Stanford History Education Group
Program focused on using technology to teach history and historical thinking.
The Versatile PhD
Information about job market and alternative careers for PhDs. **AHA is now offering free membership in Versatile PhD to AHA members.
ProfHacker
Chronicle of Higher Education blog focusing on teaching, technology, and productivity. Good insights into relationships between technology and academic life.
National Council on Public History
Organization for all those with an interest in the practice and study of history in public.
Oral History Association
GSU is the new home of the Oral History Association. Check out the OHA page's Resources section for information about finding, making, and preserving oral histories.
American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
Broad national association for state and local history practitioners, organizations, and institutions.
Urban History Association
Association focused on forwarding research and study in the history of the city in all periods and geographical areas. Affiliated with the International Planning History Society.

History News Network

Useful Resources

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig
Call Number: Call Number: D16.117 .C64 2006 ( Library North 5)
Also freely available electronically here.
Past Play: Teaching and Learning History with Technology
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Also freely available electronically here.
Journal of Digital Humanities
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Digital Humanities Quarterly
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Digital Humanities Now
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Chronicle of Higher Education
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Perspectives on History by American Historical Association
Call Number: Electronic Resource

Digital Humanities Centers/Organizations

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
centerNet
International network of digital humanities centers. Sortable by region. Member organization of ADHO.
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Member organization of ADHO
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
University of Virginia Scholars' Lab
Center for Digital Humanities | UCLA
Northwestern University Digital Humanities Lab
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Programming Historian
Online, open access, peer reviewed suite of tutorials for humanists (slanted towards historians) on a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows.

DiRT Directory

DiRT Directory
DiRT Directory (formerly Bamboo DiRT) is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. It evolved from "Bamboo DiRT", a version of the directory developed by Project Bamboo, which itself developed out of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki. The DiRT Directory makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.

Subject Guide

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Social Media

Many historical organizations are working to connect with their communities through social media. See below for some (but not all!) examples:

Using Twitter?

@AHAHistorians: American Historical Association
@The_OAH: The Organization of American Historians
@AASLH: American Association for State and Local History
@chnm: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (@dancohen, the director of CHNM, updates more regularly)
@PresNation: National Trust for Historic Preservation
@NCPH: National Council on Public History
@dhnow: Digital Humanities Now
@OHAnetwork: Oral History Association
@oralhistreview: Oral History Review
@AARL_Archives: Auburn Avenue Research Library

See the AHA's blog post, "Five Ways for Historians to Use Twitter" for more ideas!

Twitter is also an excellent way to learn more about digital history/humanities. In addition to @dancohen and @dhnow, start with:

@THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp, a growing collection of "unconferences," founded by CHNM
@EmoryDiSC: Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons, based in their library
@ProfHacker: Twitter feed for the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker blog

Using Facebook?

Related disciplines

Research guides for disciplines and courses related to history: