Found History

Today, I’ll be speaking at the Connecticut Forum on Digital Initiatives at the Connecticut State Library under the catch-all title, “The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: New initiatives, oldies but goodies, and partnership opportunities with ‘CHNM North’.” The long and short of it is that the institutional realities of being a grant-funded [...]

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Many Found History readers will know that I have recently moved full-time to Connecticut, working remotely and traveling to Fairfax four or five days each month to meet with the gang at CHNM. Since moving north, I have been lucky to make a slew of new friends and colleagues in the bustling New England public [...]

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We have been threatening to do it for years. Frustrated with the inadequacies of traditional modes of scholarly publishing for the digital age, we have long batted around the idea of launching a “CHNM Press.” Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of PressForward, a new initiative to explore and produce new means for [...]

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A few years back I had the bright idea to launch a second podcast (Digital Campus being the first). It languished. In fact, I only ever managed to record three episodes. The last one was recorded in February 2008. It’s time to retire the website, but I don’t want to lose what I believe is [...]

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Here is a partial list of places an easy workday’s drive from Pensacola, FL: Athens, GA Atlanta, GA Auburn, AL Baton Rouge, LA Beaumont, TX Biloxi, MS Birmingham, AL Chattanooga, TN Gainsville, FL Hattiesburg, MS Huntsville, AL Jackson, MS Jacksonville, FL Knoxville, TN Lake Charles, LA Macon, GA Memphis, TN Mobile, AL Montgomery, AL Nashville, [...]

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[A very rough transcript of my talk at the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative on December 1, 2010. The DHI's theme for this semester's program was "What is Digital Humanities?" This is my attempt to answer—or dodge—that question. Many thanks to Matt Gold and all my friends at CUNY for a great event and a thought-provoking [...]

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Things are looking up for digitally minded public historians. At least six new media focused tenure-track academic public history positions are open this fall, including: University of Central Florida, Director of Public History/Tenured Senior Associate or Full professor University of Central Florida, Assistant or Associate Professor in Digital and Public History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and [...]

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As an open source, not-for-profit, warm-and-fuzzy, community service oriented project, we don’t normally like to talk about market rivals or competitive products when we talk about Omeka. Nevertheless, we are often asked to compare Omeka with other products. "Who’s Omeka’s competition?" is a fairly frequent question. Like many FAQs, there is an easy answer and [...]

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As promised on Twitter, I’m sharing the report (with a few minor copyedits and corrections) I submitted this week to NEH on One Week | One Tool. This is an interim report, which means there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. The grant continues for another year, during which time the One Week | [...]

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Over the past few months, several people—including several participants themselves—have asked me how we chose the One Week | One Tool crew. We had about 50 applicants. Nearly all of them were perfectly qualified to attend. This made the selection process exceedingly difficult. I have no doubt we could have ended up with another group [...]

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