April 18
Read and Discuss:
Leslie Madsen-Brooks, “I nevertheless am a historian”: Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers, Writing History in the Digital Age , Spring 2012 version.
“Grappling with the Concept of Radical Trust,” History News, (July 2010)
Trevor Owens, Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives are Upside Down, Trevor Owens’ blog, Mar. 2012.
Online
Blog post:
Go to the National Archives and Records Administration Citizen Archivist website and experiment with one of the tasks. Blog about your experience and the Citizen Archivist project as a whole.
HIST 511: Digital History Theory & Practice 