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Briefly Noted for March 11, 2008

March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

How to make a Leyden jar out of a two-liter Coke bottle, from MAKE Magazine.
Top Ten Moments in Sitcom History. I think you’d have to put Lucy and Ethel’s stint at the conveyor belt at the top of the table, but a good list nevertheless. (Thanks, Jerm.)
Prolific “junior ranger” Chance Finegan on the history of […]

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Tags: Briefly Noted · History of Technology · Hobbies · Humor · Local History · Management · Television · Tops of All Time

A Look Back at Braddock

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Another episode of the History Conversations podcast has dropped. This time, the volunteer historians of the Look Back at Braddock project join me for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities posed by local history. Located near the center of Fairfax County, Virginia, Braddock District has changed rapidly in the 20th century, and members of […]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Local History · Public History

Finding History at Home

December 15th, 2006 · No Comments

A couple months ago, my friend Rob sent me a link to a great piece in the Washington Post that I somehow forgot to post. “A Homer’s Odyssey” reports the efforts of Greenbelt, Maryland resident Mark Opasnick to preserve and extend local historical memory in the Washington, DC area. A Montgomery County Income […]

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Tags: Ambient History · Local History

Yellow Arrow

May 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Here’s another instance of amateurs beating professionals to the punch.
There has been a lot of talk lately among a certain set of public historians (lots of it at CHNM, in fact) about moving networked historical information off the desktop and into the historical landscape using new mobile communications technologies like GPS, podcasting, WAP, and SMS. […]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Local History · Music · Public History