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Class assignments for Clio Wired (HIST
615) at George Mason Univ. For more recent work, visit our Web
Portfolio.
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Class
Assignments
- Assignment 1:
History Channel.Com
tells us a lot more about the problems that arise when commercial
interests supersede historical scholarship.
- Proposed Review
Essay:
See the Web review essay below.
- Journal Entry 1
A Few Thoughts on the Holodeck
- Web Review
Essay
All of
Tomorrow's Yesterdays:
History Journal Scholarship on the Web
Online scholarship needs more precise definition for
understanding and describing the gains achieved and the goals to
strive for.
- Digital
Project Prospectus
Disciplining the Past:
AHA Presidential Addresses in Context
Hypertext seems to provide a unique opportunity to demonstrate
how elites in one field used constructions of the past and the future
to discipline their profession.
- Journal Entry
2
History Scholarship
on the Web:
City Sites and Harlan County
- Journal Entry 3
Messages in a Bottle: H-Net and
the Online Scholarly “Community”
The idealized versions of community in the readings don't seem
to apply to H-Net, suggesting the need for a different standard.
- Final
Project Proposal
Constructing the Postwar World:
The AHA's G.I. Pamphlet Series
Produced between 1943 and 1945, the series tried to convey an
idea of what postwar America would be like to G.I.'s overseas. The
proposed site would use the pamphlets to ask whether the sharp divide
between World War II and the "the fifties" is more complex
than many imgaine.
Other
Projects on the Web
- Lessons
Learned: Five Years in Cyberspace
(A brief
review of the AHA's recent experiences in on-line publishing and
suggestions for improvement.)
- Data
about the historical profession
(Curious
about how many history PhDs there are? Want to know what the job
market for history PhDs looks like? Find your answers here.)
- AHA
Presidential Addresses
(An archive
of the annual addresses of AHA Presidents
going back to 1884, which provides an interesting overview of how
the profession has developed and changed over the past century.)
Contact
Me:
E-mail: rtownsend@theaha.org
Phone: (202) 544-2422 ext. 118
Fax: (202) 544-8307
Snail Mail:
American Historical Association
400 A St., S.E.
Washington, DC 20003-3889
Web: www.theaha.org
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