Publications

Our faculty, staff, and students publish regularly. These books, essays, and articles in the field of digital history were published by scholars affiliated with RRCHNM.

2026

The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London

Jessica M. OtisKatherine Kania The London Journal

2025

Republic of Tweets

Jessica Marie Otis The Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies

Unpacking the History of Higher Education in the United States

Kelly SchrumNate Sleeter American Historical Review Digital History Lab

2024

Constructing and Contesting the Past: Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia

Jessica Marie Otis Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies

Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Stephen Robertson Stanford University Press

Teaching Digital Humanities Online: George Mason University’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities

Stephen Robertson Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities

2023

‘Follow the Money?’ Funding and Digital Sustainability

Jessica Marie Otis Digital Humanities Quarterly

America’s Public Bible: A Commentary

Lincoln Mullen Stanford University Press

Menocchio Mapped: Italian Microhistory and the Digital Spatial Turn

Amanda Madden Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities

Reframing the Conversation: Digital Humanists, Disabilities, and Accessibility

Megan BrettJessica M. OtisMills Kelly Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023

Scale and Narrative: Conceiving a Long-Form Digital Argument for Data-Driven Microhistory

Stephen Robertson Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities

2022

A Silver Lining: Teaching through the Covid-19 Pandemic

Jessica Marie Otis The Sixteenth Century Journal

Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study

Jason HepplerOmer FarooqKate Ehrig-Page Teaching Research Data Management

Digital Scholarship and Teaching

Lincoln Mullen Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture

Hidden Voices: A Case Study Analysis of Subject Headings for Book Titles on Women in Science

Heidi BlackburnJason A. Heppler Science and Technology Libraries

Introduction: Renaissance Italy and the Digital Humanities

Amanda Madden Early Modern Digital Review

The Properties of Digital History

Stephen Robertson History and Theory

What’s In a Name? Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and Named-Entity Recognition

Jessica Marie Otis Renaissance Studies and New Technologies III

2021

Arguing with Digital History: Patterns of Historical Interpretation

Stephen RobertsonLincoln Mullen Journal of Social History

Navigating through Narrative

Stephen RobertsonLincoln Mullen Making Deep Maps: Foundations, Approaches, and Methods

The Making of America’s Public Bible: Computational Text Analysis in Religious History

Lincoln Mullen Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies: An Introduction

2020

Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy

Jason A. HepplerRebecca WingoPaul Schadewald University of Cincinnati Press

This co-edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners to examine how digital tools and methods can foster meaningful partnerships between academic institutions and the communities they serve.

Digits: Two Reports on New Units of Scholarly Publication

Matt BurtonMatthew J. LavinJessica OtisScott B. Weingart Journal of Electronic Publishing

2019

A Braided Narrative for Digital History

Lincoln Mullen Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019

Digital Humanities

Stephen Robertson The Oxford Handbook of Law and the Humanities

Reflective of my best work: Promoting inquiry-based learning in a hybrid graduate history course

Nate SleeterKelly SchrumAnne SwanJennifer Broubalow Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Teaching Hidden History: A Case Study of Dialogic Scaffolding in a Hybrid Graduate Course

Anne K. SwanNate SleeterKelly Schrum International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

2018

Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly using R (and Friends)

Ben MarwickCarl BoettigerLincoln A. Mullen American Statistician

Teaching Hidden History: Student Outcomes from a Distributed, Collaborative, Hybrid History Course

Kelly SchrumNate SleeterC. Tuong Vy SharpeAnn Pellegrino The History Teacher

The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice

Kellen FunkLincoln A. Mullen American Historical Review

2017

Digital History and Argument

Arguing with Digital History working group Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

A white paper from the Arguing with Digital History working group examining how digital historians make, support, and contest arguments using digital tools and methods.

Helping Students Make History: Community Engaged Learning

T. Mills Kelly This article was originally published in Public History Weekly and is reprinted here with permission.

Bibles and Tracts in Print Culture and Digital Culture

Lincoln A. Mullen The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America

2016

A Servile Copy: Text Reuse and Medium Data in American Civil Procedure

Kellen FunkLincoln A. Mullen Rechtsgeschichte [Legal History]

Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930

Stephen Robertson American Historical Review

Searching for Anglo-American Digital Legal History

Stephen Robertson Law and History Review

The Differences Between Digital History and Digital Humanities

Stephen Robertson Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016

2015

Scholars as Students: Introductory Digital History Training for Mid-Career Historians

Sharon M. Leon and Sheila A. Brennan white paper, http://hdl.handle.net/1920/9825

Jane, John … Leslie? A Historical Method for Algorithmic Gender Prediction

Cameron BlevinsLincoln A. Mullen Digital Humanities Quarterly

What the Teacup Said to the Tartan: Students Reveal the Historical Narratives Hidden in Everyday Objects

Kelly SchrumNate SleeterC. Tuong Vy SharpeAnn Pellegrino The American Historian

2014

Using Metadata and Maps to Teach the History of Religion

Lincoln Mullen Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

2009

Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5

Sheila A. Brennan and T. Mills Kelly Center for History and New Media, Case Study

2008

An Introduction to U.S. History Research Online

Kelly Schrum New York: Bedford/St. Martin

An Introduction to World History Research Online

Kelly Schrum and T. Mills Kelly New York: Bedford/St. Martin

2007

Entering the Virtual World of Underwater Archaeology

Gordon P. Watts and T. Kurt Knoerl This article was originally published in the book Out of the Blue: Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Resources and is reprinted here with permission.

2006

Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for “Old People”

T. Mills Kelly This article originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of NewsNet 46/4 (August 2006): 49-52 and is reprinted here with permission.

The Role of Technology in World History Teaching

T. Mills Kelly This article was originally published in World History Connected 3.3 (2006): 22 pars. 24 Jul. 2006 and is reprinted here with permission.

Ways of Seeing: Evidence and Learning in the History Classroom

Michael Coventry, Peter Felten, David Jaffee, Cecilia O'Leary, and Tracey Weis, with Susannah McGowan This article originally appeared in the March 2006 issue of The Journal of American History Volume 92, Number 4(March, 2006):1371-1402 and is reprinted here with permission.

Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past

Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published in The Journal of American History Volume 93, Number 1 (June, 2006): 117-46 and is reprinted here with permission.

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Climate Change, and the Scholarly Ecosystem

Michael Jon Jensen This essay was originally presented as the Keynote Speech at the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) Biannual Meeting, Bloomington/Normal, IL, March 30, 2006.

From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections

Daniel J. Cohen This article was originally published in D-Lib Magazine Volume 12, Number 3 (March, 2006): 6-19 and is reprinted here with permission.

No Computer Left Behind

Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 24, 2006.

2005

The Future of Preserving the Past

Daniel J. Cohen This article was originally published in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 2, 2 (Summer, 2005): 6–19 and is reprinted here with permission.

Web of lies? Historical knowledge on the Internet

Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig This essay originally appeared in First Monday, December 2005.

By the Book: Assessing the Place of Textbooks in U.S. Survey Courses

Daniel J. Cohen Originally published in The Journal of American History, March 2005, Volume 91, No.4

Digital Archives Are a Gift of Wisdom to Be Used Wisely

Roy Rosenzweig Originally published in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 24,2005 Volume 51, Issue 42, Page B20 http://chronicle.com

American Digital History

Orville Vernon Burton This article was originally published in Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 23 No. 2, Summer 2005 206-220, reprinted here with permission.

The Bookless Future: What the Internet is Doing to Scholarship

David A. Bell Originally published in the New Republic, May 2, 2005, p. 27. Reprinted here with permission.

Should Historical Scholarship Be Free?

Roy Rosenzweig From the Vice Presidents column in AHA Perspectives (April 2005), reprinted here with permission.

2004

Using Technology, Making History: A Collaborative Experiment in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Scholarship

Brian Dennis, Carl Smith, and Jonathan Smith Originally published in Rethinking History Vol.8, No.2, June 2004, pp.303-317.

History and the Second Decade of the Web

Daniel J. Cohen Originally published in Rethinking History Vol.8, No.2, June 2004, pp. 293-301

More than ten years of experience with the web has allowed us to understand what the medium does well and what it does poorly, and how we may improve online historical efforts so they capitalize on the web's strengths while avoiding its weaknesses. This essay explores three possible ways to advance digital history: interaction between historians and their subjects, interoperation of dispersed historical archives, and the analysis of online resources using computationalmethods. Thinking about such possibilities raises important, age-old questions about how we should preserve and chronicle the past.

Gutenberg-e: Electronic Entry to the Historical Professoriate

Patrick Manning Originally published in American Historical Review, December 2004 http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/109.5/manning.html

History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Joshua Brown This article was originally published in Rethinking History, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2004.

2003

‘Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye’: E-Supplements and the Teaching of U.S. History

David Jaffee From The Journal of American History Vol. 89, Issue 4 March 2003.
Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/89.4/jaffee.html

Surfing for the Past: How to Separate the Good from the Bad

Kelly Schrum This article was originally published in AHA Perspectives (May 2003) and is reprinted here with permission.

Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era

Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published in American Historical Review 108, 3 (June 2003): 735-762 and is reprinted here with permission.

2002

Labor History on the World Wide Web: Thoughts on Jumping onto a Moving Express

Thomas Dublin This article was originally published in Labor History 43, 3 (August 2002): 343-56 and is reprinted here with permission.

2001

Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar

Tracey Weiss This article was originally published in The History Teacher 34, 3 (May 2001): 345-352 and is reprinted here with permission.

Making History on the Web Matter in the Classroom

Kelly Schrum This article was originally published in The History Teacher 34, 3 (May 2001): 327-338 and is reprinted here with permission.

Using ‘History Matters’ with a Ninth-Grade Class

David Kobrin This article was originally published in The History Teacher 34, 3 (May 2001): 339-344 and is reprinted here with permission.

Using New Media to Teach East European History

T. Mills Kelly This article was originally published in Nationalities Papers 29, 3 (September 2001): 499-508 and is reprinted here with permission.

Toward Transparency in Teaching: Publishing a Course Portfolio

T. Mills Kelly This article was originally published in AHA Perspectives (November 2001) and is reprinted here with permission.

Lessons Learned from Building the Famous Trials Website

Douglas Linder This article was originally published in The Jurist (January 2001) and is reprinted here with permission.

The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web

Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published in Journal of American History 88, 2 (September 2001): 548-579 and is reprinted here with permission.

2000

For Better or Worse? The Marriage of the Web and Classroom

T. Mills Kelly This article was originally published in Journal of the Association for History and Computing III, 2 (August 2000) and is republished here with permission.

Building Effective Course Sites: Some Thoughts on Design for Academic Work

Michael O'Malley This article was originally published in Inventio 2, 1 (February 2000) and is republished here with permission.

Top Ten Mistakes in Academic Web Design

Paula Petrik This article was originally published in History Computer Review (May 2000) and is reprinted with permission.

1999

Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, and Proposals

Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published as White Paper for Department of Education, Forum on Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning a New Future, December 1, 1999 and is reprinted here with permission.

The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies Date: December 1999

Randy Bass This essay is undergoing revision. (Constructive) comments may be sent to the author. Unpublished essay, reprinted with permission from http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/garden.html.

The Future of Labor’s Past

John Summers This article was originally published in Labor History 40, 1 (February 1999): 69-79 and is reprinted here with permission.

‘We Shall Be All’: Designing History for the Web

Paula Petrik Note: This presentation is part of a longer, more developed essay that is still in progress. As such, it does not contain the usual full complement of scholarly apparatus or all the arguments and examples of the extended version. Although you may refer to the presentation in general, please do not quote from this iteration of the essay. You may also find the pieces at my web site (http://www.archiva.net) helpful for discussions of information, aesthetic, and technical design.

Crashing the System? Hypertext and Scholarship on American Culture

Roy Rosenzweig This article originally appeared in American Quarterly 51.2 (June 1999), 237-246. It introduced a group of online, hypertext articles, which are available at http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq/.

1998

Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors & Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet

Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published in American Historical Review 103, 5 (December 1998): 1530-52 and is reprinted here with permission.

‘Dynamic Syllabi for Dummies’: Posting Class Assignments on the World Wide Web

Gary J. Kornblith This article was originally published in Journal of American History 84, 4 (March 1998): 1447-53 and is reprinted here with permission.

Can You Do Serious History on the Web?

Carl Smith This article was originally published in AHA Perspectives (February 1998) and is reprinted here with permission.

1997

Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web

Michael O'Malley and Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published in Journal Of American History 84, 1 (June 1997) and is republished here with permission.

1995

‘So, What’s Next for Clio?’ CD-ROM and Historians

Roy Rosenzweig This article was originally published in The Journal of American History 81, 4 (March 1995): 1621-1640 and is reprinted here with permission.