Digital History
I’ve been teaching public and digital history since I joined the St. Bonaventure faculty, often in a close partnership with Dennis Frank, the University Archivist, and the Friedsam Memorial Library staff. As a result, students enrolled in History 206: Introduction to Public History and History 419: Digital History and Archival Practices have, over the years, contributed to the public history of the university and its archival holdings. Many of their projects can be found on the Archives web page. You should also consult the History Research Sources and Visualization Tips and Tools pages.
Professional Resources on Digital History
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (lots of tools, advice, techniques) You can also check out their textbook, Digital History. It's a little dated but the underlying ideas are remain solid. You can also read Rosenzweig's Digital History and Argument.
H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-Net is a pioneer in using the internet to connect historians and social scientists. It has an enormous amount of resources, including book reviews.)
NCPH Digital Projects Directory
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Archival Resources for Class
Archives and Records Management Resources
Internet Archives (aka WayBack Machine)
The National Archives AOTUS Blog
Library of Congress: The Signal
Trevor Owens User Centered Digital Memory
Articles and Web Pages about Using Digital Tools
Getting Started with Topic Modeling and Mallet
Data Management for Historians
Data Management Plans for Historians
Zoe Jackson, Research Clutter: A New App Helps Create Order out of Disorder (A Perspectives story on Tropy, a free tool for organizing your photographs of digital research.)
The Programming Historian (For when you are ready to get a little more advanced.)
Google Web Creators Blog and YouTube Channel
Evaluating Digital Sources and Information Literacy
Michael Caufield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Daniel Funke, Want to be a Better Online Sleuth? Learn to Read Web Pages like a Fact Checker
Elizabeth Elliot, Why Read Why Learn History (When It’s Summarized in This Article)
Wineburg, Why Historical Thinking is Not about History
Historicalthinkingmatters.org: Using the Web to Teach Historical Thinking
Digital Tools
WeTransfer (Easily send and receive large files)
TimelineJS (create timelines working with Google sheets)
Audacity (Open Source Audio Editing)
OpenShot (Open Source Video Editing. Teacher's Tech tutorial on OpenShot)
Shotcut (Open Source Video Edition)
Inkspot (draw freely)
Zotero (A place to organize your research.)
Laurence Anthony's AntConc (freeware text analysis tool)
The Clio App (A web page and app allowing people and students to contribute to local history.)
Tropy (Research photo management)
Hypothes.is (social annotation)
AlternativeTo (A web site that helps you find crowdsourced alternatives to commercial software.)
Privacy and Safety
Copyright and Intellectual Property
Creative Commons (Creative Commons Search for free to use images)
Fair Use (from the Harvard Library)
Copyright for Students (from the Ohio State Library)
Free to Use Image Sites
Digital History Projects
Civil War Digital Humanities Projects (H-CivWar)