- Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Week 6
- Week 7
- Week 8
- Week 9
- Week 10
- Week 11
- Week 12
- Week 13
- Week 14
- Week 15
- Week 16
Week 1 (1/9/19): Introduction and Creating a Digital Identity
Before Class
Read:
- Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner, and Brian Croxall, “Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics”
- Miriam Posner, “How did they make that”
In Class
- Introductions
- Go over syllabus
- Sign up for a Reclaim Hosting account
- Install WordPress
Resources:
Assignments for next week
- Write a blog post reflecting on next week’s readings.
Did anything surprise you? What did you learn that you didn’t know before? What are some of the potential benefits and concerns for historians in the digital age? Make sure to reference the readings in your response.
Week 2 (1/16/19) : Introduction to Computer History
Before Class
Read:
- Chris Woodford, A Brief History of Computers
- Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Promises and Perils of Digital History
- Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Exploring the History Web
Watch:
In Class
- Discussion
- Sign up for Slack
- Sign up for Twitter
- Sign up for a week as discussion leader
Resources:
- Some #twitterhistorians you may want to follow:
@skantrow; @HC_Richardson; @KevinMKruse; @JamesWLoewen; @BettyRbl; @MJWitgen; @ProfCAnderson; @jlauck1941; @marydudziak; @benmschmidt; @HstyMattersSyd; @KathleenADuVal; @andyandnancy; @rzhist; @jbf1755; @werehist; @JohnFea1; @NMAAHC; @ncph; @SmithsonianNMAI
Assignments for next week
- Write a blog post reflecting on next week’s readings.
What were some of Rosenzweig main concerns? According to Milligan how is digitzation changing the way we research? How is conducting research in the digital age different than historical research in the past? How is it similar? It has been 15 years since Rosenzweig asked if historians of the future will be dealing with a scarcity or an abundance of sources. Do we have an answer to that question? What features and formats of digital resource repositories were most helpful? What features or designs were the least helpful and why?
Week 3 (1/23/19): Conducting Research in the Digital Age
Before Class
Read:
- Roy Rosenzweig, Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era
- Milligan, Ian. “Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997–2010.” The Canadian Historical Review 94, No. 4 (2013): 540-569. (available through the library)
Explore:
- Papers of the War Department
- Founders Online
- National Archives
- Internet Archive
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
- The September 11 Digital Archive
- Clemson Libraries’ History Resource Guide
- Others
In Class
- Discussion
- Install Zotero
- Install Tropy
- Download the Scannable or Dropbox App
- Set up Dropbox or Google Drive
Resources:
Assignments for next week
- Scan several documents using an app of your choice on your phone and send them to either a Dropbox or Google Drive Account. Import those images into Tropy. One of these documents should be handwritten (see the Papers of the War Department if you cannot find a handwritten document). Transcribe part of the handwritten document in the notes section of Tropy. Take a screenshot of your Tropy project and include it in your weekly blog post.
- Search the web for sources on a topic of your choosing and import the metadata into Zotero. In Google Docs, cite those works using Zotero (Chicago Style) and share the document with me.
- Write a blog post reflecting on your experiences working with Zotero and Tropy. This will include your Tropy screenshot.
Week 4 (1/30/19): Archival Visit & Clemson History
Before Class
Read:
- Sam Wineburg, Thinking Like a Historian
- Rhondda Robinson Thomas, “Reconstruction, Public Memory, and the Making of Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation,” American Literary History 30, no. 3 (2018): 584-607. (available through the library website)
- Rhondda Robinson Thomas, “Call My Name”
- Clemson Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives Guide; Clemson Libraries’ Finding Aid
In Class
- Tour of special collections
- Topic brainstorming session
Resources (available online and in the library):
- Reel, Jerome V. The High Seminary: A history of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, 1889-1964 Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2013.
- Jerome V. Reel, The High Seminary: A History of Clemson University, 1964-2000. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2011.
- Reel, Jerome V, and Alma Bennett. Women and Clemson University: Excellence, Yesterday and Today. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2006.
- Lisa K. Wagner, Umit Yilmaz, Victor B. Shelburne, Jerry A. Waldvogel, and Mary Taylor Haque, The Nature of Clemson: A Field Guide to the Natural History of Clemson University. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2005.
- Clayton, Donald D. A Walking Tour of Residential Seneca. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2001.
- Ellers, Joseph C. Getting to Know Clemson University Is Quite an Education: Determination Makes Dreams Come True. Clemson, S.C.: Blueridge Publications, 1987.
- Riley, Helene M. Clemson University. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002.
- Bryan, Wright. Clemson: An Informal History of the University, 1889-1979. Columbia, S.C.: R.L. Bryan, 1979.
Assignments for next week
- Spend some time in the library and/or special collections and come up with a potential theme for your historic tour of Clemson. What are some potential locations and events that you would include? Are there images and documents that you can include? Post your ideas to the #clemson_history_app channel on Slack.
Week 5 (2/6/19): Introduction to HTML and CSS
Before Class
Read:
In Class
- Discussion
- Install DreamWeaver, Atom, or Notebook ++
- Start Codecademy tutorial
Assignments for next week
- Complete the Codecademy HTML tutorial. Take a screenshot of the completed tutorial page and post it on your blog.
- Complete the Codecademy CSS tutorial. Take a screenshot of the completed tutorial page and post it on your blog.
Week 6 (2/13/19): More HTML and CSS
Before Class
Read:
- Bootstrap Tutorial; experiment with the code
In Class
- More DreamWeaver
- Create a webpage using only HTML & CSS
- How to put your webpage on Reclaim
- Bootstrap
Assignments for next week
- Share the link to your hand-coded webpage on the #website channel on Slack.
Week 7 (2/20/19): Maps & Space
Before Class
Explore:
- David Rumsey Map Collection, locate several historic maps of the UpCountry
In Class
- Discussion
- Mapwarper
- Georefrencer
- CartoDB
Assignment for Next Week
- Write a blog post describing the process of georectification. Include examples of your work in the post.
Week 8 (2/27/19): More Maps & Space
Before Class
Read:
- Lincoln Mullen, “Data Maps”
- Richard White, “What Is Spatial History?,” The Spatial History Project, February 1, 2010.
In Class
- Discussion
- StoryMap JS
- Timeline JS
Resources:
Lindsey Passenger Wieck, Tutorial – Creating Narrative Maps – Using StoryMap JS
Lindsey Passenger Wieck, TimelineJS Tutorial
Assignments for Next Week
- Create a StoryMap and Timline on a topic of your choice and share them on your blog.
Week 9 (3/6/19): Data Visualization
Before Class
Read:
- John Theibault, “Visualizations and Historical Arguments” in Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty (University of Michigan Press, 2013).
Watch:
Do:
- Sign Up for a free trial of Tableau
- Try to create your own pivot tables using Excel and the sample data.
In Class
- Excel
- Tableau
Resources:
- Excel Data Analysis
- Palladio
- Gephi
- Brian Sarnacki, “The Complete n00b’s Guide to Gephi”
Assignments for Next Week
- Write a blog post reflecting upon Excel and Tableau. Include some of your visualizations in the post.
- Read through several of the articles from the first issue of Current Research in Digital History, and select one to explore in depth. Write a blog post reflecting on the article that addresses the author’s argument (what is it?), their implementation of digital methods, and their use of visualizations.
Week 10 (3/13/19): Textual Analysis
Before Class
- Read through several of the articles from the first issue of Current Research in Digital History
In Class
- Discussion
- Voyant Tutorial
- Google Ngram Viewer Tutorial
Resources:
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Voyant Tutorial
- Voyant Tools Documentation
Assignments for next week
- Write a blog post reflecting upon Voyant and Ngrams. Include some of your visualizations.
Week 11 (3/27/19): Topic Modeling
Before Class
Read:
- Megan R. Brett, “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction,” Journal of Digital Humanities 2, no. 1 (Winter 2012).
- Shawn Graham, Scott Weingart, and Ian Milligan, “Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET,” The Programming Historian.
Explore:
- Amanda Regan and Joshua Catalano, “Mining the Eleanor Roosevelt My Day Columns” and read the accompanying blog post.
In Class
- Discussion
- Install MALLET
- Create Topic Models
Resources:
- Prepare and Visualize Mallet Topics with Excel
- Wright American Fiction Corpus
Assignment for next week
- Write a blog post reflecting on topic modeling. Make sure to include images from your models (your model output) in your blog post.
Week 12 (4/3/19): Omeka & Metadata
Before Class
Read:
In Class
- Discussion of metadata
- Install Omeka
- Omeka Tutorial
Resources:
- Miriam Posner, “Up and Running with Omeka.net”
- Omeka Planning Guide
- Omeka Guide to Item Types
- Omeka Guide to File Types
Assignments for next week
- Write a brief “story” for at least three locations that you will include in your historic tour. Find at least two images (historic photographs, letters, or other primary sources that will accompany each story). Each story should be approximately 500 words and include citations. See New Orleans Historical for example stories. Post your drafts and images to the #clemson_history_app channel on Slack.
Week 13 (4/10/19): History Apps
Before Class
Read:
- Clayton, Donald D. A Walking Tour of Residential Seneca. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2001.
Explore:
- New Orleans Historical; download the app on to your mobile device as well
- Explore more examples
In Class
- Discussion
- Curatescape Tutorial
Resources:
Assignments for next week
- Add your stories and images to our class Omeka site www.upcountryhistorical.org. Make sure to include the proper metadata for each associated image.
Week 14 (4/17/19): Project Workshop
In Class
- Address difficulties from last week’s assignment
- Peer review each other’s work
Assignments for next week
- Write a blog post reflecting on next week’s readings. How can algorithms contribute to oppression? What concerns should historians have regarding bias and digital technology?
Week 15 (4/24/19): Digital Bias & Oppression
Before Class
Read:
- Noble, Safiya, “Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls,” Time, March 26, 2018.
In Class
Watch:
- The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms
Assignments for next week
- Complete your historic tour and prepare a brief walk-through demonstration for the class explaining why you made certain content or design choices.
- Complete your hand-coded website and send me the web address on Slack.
Week 16 (5/1/19): Project Presentations
In Class
- Present your historic tour to the rest of the class