Monthly Archives: February 2016

Data Visualization tools allow users to analyze a text by taking statistical data – such as word frequency, the amount of times a certain word or phrase appears in a text, and create a “word cloud” or image of the … Continue reading →

Overview Podcasting has become a fashionable way to present history online to public audiences.  Most notably, there is now Backstory, a podcast series put together for National Public Radio by leading historians Edward Ayers, Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf.  The … Continue reading →

Due by March 7 The first historiography post (about 1,500 words) should analyze how one particular digital tool or platform has already affected various types of historical inquiry.  This post should include Chicago-style footnotes.  Images, hyperlinks, and embedded maps are … Continue reading →

Data visualization is a powerful tool when it comes to surveying vast amounts of content in a timely manner. While text-backed data tools come in several different formats, the two most prominent and perhaps most useful methods of data visualization … Continue reading →

Overview There are many different ways to visualize or present data in a history project, but digital tools enable an even wider and more creative array of such visualizations than in the past.  Most notably, word clouds (or graphic representation … Continue reading →

For this lab, I chose to use Genius as a means of annotating the fourth chapter of Henry Adam’s autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. I chose Genius as I found it more straight forward and intuitive than Diigo or Hypothes.is, and … Continue reading →