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Jason A. Heppler

I'm Jason A. Heppler — a historian of the North American West and Great Plains. I'm the senior developer/scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Writing

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Restoring Old Digital History Vibing Digital History The Obsidian-Hugo Workflow Computers Can't Surprise A New Design for Readability My Ideal Library “Fluent and Stranded”

Books, book chapters, & digital history

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Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism Book · 2024 Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism University of Oklahoma Press Digital Community Engagement Edited volume · 2020 Digital Community Engagement University of Cincinnati Press Teaching Research Data Management Chapter Teaching Research Data Management ACRL ↗ A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign Chapter A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign Wiley Blackwell ↗ The Plains Political Tradition Chapter The Plains Political Tradition South Dakota Historical Society Press ↗
Governing Ground A digital history of the recurring movements over the transfer, ownership, and control of federal lands. Westward An endless scroll of public-domain photographs of the American West drawn from public repositories.

Essays, reviews & criticism

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Digital History Review of ClioVis: Visualizing Connections The Journal of American History · 2024 Spoiled Fruits: Environmental Inequality in Silicon Valley AHA Perspectives · 2023 Review of Timeline of Empire Reviews in Digital Humanities · 2022 Digital Community Engagement in a Pandemic History@Work, NCPH · 2021 How Silicon Valley Provides the Blueprint for Cleaning Up Our Drinking Water The Washington Post · 2019

On the road

Attendee Western History Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon · Oct 21-24 Under the Big Sky Writer's Retreat B Bar Ranch, Bozeman, Montana · Jun 20 Attendee Western History Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico · Oct 15-l8

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Occasional writing on the American West, agricultural history, and political culture.