Maddie's History Thoughts

Getting a Little Too Cute With Twine and Digital Storytelling

Some Thoughts On Maps

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Herndon Shaped Hole True story about me and maps: my dad used to lock me and my siblings individually in the computer room until we had done a… Read More

STEAL KNOWLEDGE! YES!!! TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF RIGHTEOUS THEFT!!!!!

Content warning for this blog post: brief mention of suicide. In 1859, Karl Marx published an early version of his thoughts on the labor theory of value. Marx posited that the value of profit came from stealing the… Read More

Project Management Doesn’t Need Frameworks: It Needs Structure

When discussing the definition of digital history in his 2021 book Technology and the Historian, Adam Crymble found himself skeptical of the utility of continued confabulation over the precise definition of the term “digital humanities,” writing, “Digital history… Read More

Making a One-Sided Case for Digitization

Digitization is awesome and its issues are solvable During our HIST 696 class this week, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of source digitization. I found myself a little surprised that the discussion focused mostly on the disadvantages,… Read More

The Big “Big Tent” Debate

Big tenters vs. exclusionists everywhere! In his 2021 book Technology and the Historian, Adam Crymble explores the history of the perennial debate surrounding how exactly we should define the term “digital history,” and its closely related if not… Read More

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