HIST 2990: Digital Humanities
Projects
Focusing the course around the history of Omaha. I’m considering Curatescape again, like I had for the Stanford course.
Readings
- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line (Avon, 1999).
- Paul Ford, “What is Code”
- Scott Weingart, “‘Digital History’ Can Never Be New”
- Fred Gibbs, “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations” The American Historian
- Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” JAH
- Andrew Hurley, “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology” The Public Historian vol. 38 no. 1 (February 2016): 69–88.
- Larsen, Lawrence, et al. Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha & Council Bluffs (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007).
- Larson, Lawrence, and Barbara J. Cottrell. The Gate City: A History of Omaha (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982).
- Menard, Orville D. River City Empire: Tom Dennison’s Omaha (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989).