Author Archives: Matthew Pinsker

Dickinson College is not in the MOOC (massive open online course) business, but we have been experimenting with online learning.  Each summer since 2012, the House Divided Project at Dickinson has been partnering with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American … 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 →

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 →

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