Week Number: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16

All reading should be completed prior to the class for which it is listed.

Week 1

Mon. June 3. Course Introduction

In Class:

• Introductions
• Course Overview

After Class:

• Purchase a Student Plan ($30) from Reclaim Hosting. Think carefully about the domain name you choose. How do you want to represent yourself online?
• Take the Student Technology Survey
• If you haven’t already done so, create an account for our slack group and then join the #summer19 channel.

Wed. June 5. Digital Identities and Defining Digital History.

Before Class:

• Megan O’Neil, “Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 21, 2014.
• Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner, and Brian Coxall, “Creating Your Web Presence,” ProfHacker, February 14, 2011.
• Ryan Cordell, “Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online,” ProfHacker, October 3, 2012.
• Miram Posner, “How Did They Make That?,” August 29, 2013. Click through to all the projects listed.
• Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History” and “Getting Started,” in Digital History, online edition (Center for History and New Media, 2005).

After Class:

• Finish setting up your blog. Think carefully about how you want to portray yourself online.
• Blog 1

Week 2

Mon. June 10. Evaluating History Online. Who were the Progressives?

Before Class:

• The American Yawp, Chapter 20

After Class:

• Blog 2

Wed. June 12. Primary Sources in the Digital Age. Labor and Leisure in the Progressive Era.

Before Class:

See slack channel for password to access readings through dropbox.

• Sam Wineburg, “Thinking Like a Historian,” Teaching with Primary Sources Quarterly 3, 1 (Winter 2010).
• Basics of Visual Literacy, University of Maryland
• Excerpt from Steven J. Ross, “Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America.” (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998). (pdf)

After Class:

• Blog 3

Week 3

Mon. June 17. Copyright & Fair Use.

Before Class:

• On Copyright:
  • Cory Doctorow, “We’ll Probably Never Free Mickey, But That’s Beside the Point.” Electronic Frontier Foundation (2016)
  • Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Owning the Past,” in Digital History.
  • George Mason Copyright Office, sections on copyright and fair use.
• On the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire:
  • Richard A. Greenwlad. “The Burning Building at 23 Washington Place”: The Triangle Fire, Workers and Reformers in Progressive Era New York.” New York History 83, no. 1 (2002): 55-91.

After Class:

• Blog 4

Wed. June 19. Omeka.

Sara Collini will guest lecture and teach Omeka today

Before Class:

• Guide to Creating Omeka Exhibits, The Albert Greenfield Digital Center for The History of Women’s Education.
• Miriam Posner, Up and Running with Omeka, The Programming Historian (2013).
• Explore Dublin Core, “Metadata Basics.”
• Exhibit Builder Tutorial
• Look at and familiarize yourself with the following exhibits:
  • The NAACP in Texas exhibit
  • The Athletics and Physical Education at Bryn Mawr College, 1885-1929 exhibit

After Class:

• Skill Assignment #1 & 2. Due June 26th prior to the start of class.

Week 4

Mon. June 24. Reform & Legislation in the Progressive Era. Timelines.

Before Class:

• Sign up for a Google account if you don’t already have one.
• Explore the Timeline.js website. Look at a few of the examples and watch the overview video on the home page.
• Excerpt from McGerr, Michael E. “Chapter 3: Transforming Americans” in A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870 - 1920. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

In Class:

• Timeline.js

After Class:

• Skill Assignment #3. Due July 26th by 1:30pm.

Wed. June 26.

• No class today. Work on your midterm.
• Take Home Midterm will be distributed by 8am. Due through blackboard June 30th by 11:59pm.
  • Study Guide

Week 5

Mon. July 1. Votes for Women. Databases (Part 1).

Before Class:

• Sign up for AirTable
• Excerpt from The Woman’s Hour, (TBA)
• “Spreadsheet Thinking vs Database Thinking”
• Mark Merry, “Designing Databases for Historical Research,” especially part D.
• Lev Manovich, “Database as a Genre of New Media,” AI & Society 14 (2000)

After Class:

• Work on Skill Assignment #4

Wed. July 3. Databases (Part 2).

• Airtable, Setting Up Field Types
• Airtable, A Beginners Guide to many-to-many relationships

• Airtable, Linking Between Tables

• Skill Assignment #4. Due before the start of class Wednesday Jul 10th.

Week 6

Mon. July 8. Women & Reform. Text Mining.

Before Class:

• Maureen A. Flanagan, “Gender and Urban Political Reform: The City Club and the Woman’s City Club of Chicago in the Progressive Era” in The American Historical Review
• Ted Underwood, “Where to Start with Text Mining,” The Stone and the Shell, August 14, 2012.
• Ted Underwood, “Seven Ways Humanists are Using Computers to Understand Text,” The Stone and the Shell, June 4, 2015.
• Dan Cohen, “Searching for the Victorians,” October 4, 2010.
• Explore: Cameron Blevins, “Topic Modeling Martha Ballard’s Diary”
• Experiment with:
  • Google Books Ngram Viewer
  • Bookworm

After Class:

• Skill Assignment #5. Due before the start of class on July 15th.

Wed. July 10. Segregation & Jim Crow. Mapping.

Before Class:

• Mark S. Foster, “In the Face of ‘Jim Crow’: Prosperous Blacks and Vacations, Travel and Outdoor Leisure, 1890-1945”, The Journal of Negro History, vol. 84, no. 2, Apr. 1999, pp. 130–49. Crossref, doi:10.²³⁰⁷⁄_2649043.
• Keppler.gl User Guide
• Play with Keppler.gl
• Familiarize yourself with The Negro Motorist Green-Book

After Class:

• Skill Assignment #6. Due before the start of class on July 17th.

Week 7

Mon. July 15. Immigration. Visualizations.

• Excerpts from Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy Since 1882 (pdf)
• John Theibault, “Visualizations and Historical Arguments,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty (University of Michigan Press, 2013).

• Explore the visualizations created by Mike Bostock.

• Sign up for Plot.ly

After Class:

• Skill Assignment #7. Due before the start of class on July 22nd.

Wed. July 17. Security. Machine Learning & Algorithms of Oppression.

• Dan Goodin, “Why passwords have never been weaker,” Ars Technica, August 20, 2012.
• Mat Honan, “How I Resurrected My Digital Life After an Epic Hacking,” Wired, August 17, 2012.
• Kieran Healy, “Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere,” June 9, 2013.
• Safiya Noble, “A Society, Searching” excerpt from Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.

After Class:

• Blog 5 due July 22nd by 1:30pm

Week 8

Mon. July 22. Catch up and Review.

Fri. July 26.

• No final exam.
• Portfolios and Reflections (skill #8) due by 1:30pm.
• Timelines (skill 3) due by 1:30pm.