Archived Posts

Congrats! You’ve survived History 8510 and are now a Programming Historian! You now know how to code. As you look forward to future digital projects, assignments, and classes remember that part …

This post is co-written by Amanda Regan and Joshua Catalano. It is cross-posted on Josh’s blog. Two weeks ago, Josh Catalano and I participated in the Collections as Data Hack-to-Learn event sponsored …

One of the questions that the PressForward team gets repeatedly is how publications can use custom fields to automatically print data about a post once it is published. Publications often wish to …

Mapping Gymnasiums in Boston In 1889 Josiah Quincey was elected Mayor of Boston. Throughout his term as mayor he implemented a new system of municipal baths and gymnasiums in the city designed to …

What is Dat? Dat is a set of tools used to “build and share data pipelines.” Dat was created with the goal of bringing “to data a style of collaboration similar to what git brings to source code.” The …

It seems like just yesterday we walked into the Center for History and New Media a bit unsure about what our first year as DH fellows would entail. Looking back it has been an extremely rewarding and …

This week our readings focused on Topic Modeling. I’ve been looking forward to this week for some time partly because I plan to use Topic Modeling for my dissertation but also because I was eager to …

I’m a few weeks behind with this blog post about our minor field readings meeting on Space in Digital History. For this meeting we read a variety of works that discussed Geographic Information Systems …

This weeks readings on “Changing Theories of History” discussed the ways digital methods are changing how historians practice or “do” history. Several authors discussed how digital research methods …