Last Chance to View Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy
The New York Historical Society’s exhibition, Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy, is on display until July 4, 2022. Curated by Wendy […]
digital humanities
Delaware Launches Interactive Women’s Suffrage Website
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. Although […]
This Month at MARCH: Experiential Education
This month our rowhouse in the Cooper Street Historic District has been lively with undergraduate and graduate students as well as the ongoing activities of our staff.
New from Delaware: The Digital Scholar
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the University of Delaware has launched The Digital Scholar, a newsletter for disseminating information about digital humanities and digital scholarship.
Modern Language Association Paper Proposals
The proposals are due electronically by September 23.
If Ben Franklin Were a Digital Humanist–He Would Love Metadata
There may be no figure digital humanists like to use in examples more than the venerable Philadelphian Ben Franklin.
Three Events This April
MARCH and OHMAR (Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region) formed a partnership to host three major events for public historians on the Rutgers University-Camden campus.
Goin' North
In addition to the commemorations of the Centennial of the Great War that have been occurring throughout the city this […]
A purposefully prosaic approach to digital pedagogy, or stealthing digitally
As a result of my involvement with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), I’m often asked how to introduce students to learning digitally. I have to confess I am tempted to answer, rather unhelpfully, digital pedagogy changes everything changes nothing. The more teaching I do digitally, the more I learn how to teach digitally, but I am always doing the same thing, facilitating student learning. The following tips build on the excellent work done for NITLE by Rebecca Frost Davis, Katherine D. Harris, Lisa Spiro, Kathryn Tomasek, and Adeline Koh and Jesse Stommel at Hybrid Pedagogy.
Pinterest for Public History
Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board to which users “pin” images. With 25 million users and the ability to drive more clicks than any other social media site, including Facebook, Pinterest is an alluring platform for public history. In June I offered a workshop at MARCH aimed at small- to medium-sized organizations with new users who have limited time to devote to social media.