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  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    5/17/2023

    Have Corporations Captured Social Science Research through Donations?

    by Nina Strohminger Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

    From decisionmaking to climate change, a focus on individual choices has flourished in social scientific research at the expense of sytemic change. Is corporate enthusiasm for funding this research any coincidence? 

  • SOURCE: Public Books
    1/6/2022

    In Praise of Search Tools

    by Diedre Lynch

    Books by Dennis Duncan and Craig Robertson examine the history of indexing, filing, and other technologies for locating information in books and the resultant culture of research.

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    7/6/2021

    You are Only as Good as Your Sources

    by Bobby Cervantes

    Can researchers reexamine the boundary between journalism and historiography while maintaining the integrity of both? A researcher with a background in both explains how. 

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    1/22/2021

    Please Stop Calling Things Archives: An Archivist's Plea

    by B.M. Watson

    "As many historians currently use the word “archives,” they seem to imply that an archive is the natural state in which primary sources arrange themselves after being discarded or left by their creators."

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    12/15/2020

    Working With Death: The Experience of Feeling in the Archive

    by Ruth Lawlor

    A researcher of sexual assault against women by American troops in World War II confronted the problem that the archive captures only a traumatic event and leaves the human being affected in the shadows. 

  • SOURCE: American Historical Association
    6/23/2020

    AHA Receives Major NEH Grant to Fund COVID-19 Initiative

    The American Historical Association is launching a major new initiative to help our members and their colleagues with the challenges of being a historian, and a history teacher, in a virtual environment.

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    2/26/20

    History by Text and Thing

    by ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball

    For researchers, history is a thing we do. It is an activity, a handling of old books, a building seen from the vantage point of its past. 

  • Serendip-o-matic Seeks to Replicate Thrill of Archival Discovery Online

    by Michelle Moravec

    A week ago today, twelve strangers showed up at George Mason University and in five days, going at it around the clock, as humanities people often do, they created a new digital humanities research tool. With almost every day seeming to offer yet another news piece questioning the value of the humanities, One Week | One Tool (OWOT) offers a tangible answer. Funded by an National Endowment for the Humanities grant and organized by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, OWOT created Serendip-o-matic, a “serendipity engine” that searches for “unexpected connections between the material you already have at hand, and the universe of sources beyond your fingertips.”