Doing History in the Era of the Web Middlebury College March 7, 2018 Seth Denbo, PhD American Historical Association @seth_denbo
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

Churchdown Fireworks 2014, Kev Lewis (https://flic.kr/p/pYcE6D)


John Donne by Isaac Oliver (National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1849)

Paul’s Churchyard, looking east, from the west. From the Visual Model, constructed by Joshua Stephens, rendered by Jordan Gray. https://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/churchyard/view/


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Fire_London.jpg
big data
beyond text

Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt, Invisible Australians, invisibleaustralians.org


Downs & Nesbit, Mapping Occupation: Force, Freedom, and the Army in Reconstruction, http://mappingoccupation.org/map/index.html

Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas. April 18, 1935. NOAA George E. Marsh Album. www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/theb1365.htm


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microcosm_of_London_Plate_058_-_Old_Bailey.jpg

http://criminalintent.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/criminal_intent_digging_into_data_meeting_10jun2011.pdf
Jo Guldi & David Armitage, The History Manifesto, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.2.377.
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