Westward
An endless scroll of public-domain photographs of the American West.
Over a decade of building history on the web.
Most of this work sits at the intersection of digital history, computational research, community-engaged and public-facing scholarship, and design — a combination of solo projects and collaborations. Find more on GitHub and Observable, or see my full CV.
Mapping Private Investigations
Mapping the operations, agents, and impact of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency across the United States.
Mapping Early Modern Violence
How violence was enacted, understood, and remembered in the cities of early modern Italy, 1500–1700.
Teaching History
Teaching materials, history content, and best practices for K–12 American history education.
Connecting Threads
Amplifying the contributions of Indian weavers and African Caribbean consumers to global histories of dress.
The Denig Manuscript
An eighteenth-century Pennsylvania merchant's manuscript and watercolor.
DataScribe
A structured data transcription module for Omeka S.
Apiary
A data API for data-driven research at RRCHNM.
Religious Ecologies
New datasets and visualizations to better understand the history of American religion.
Mapping the University
Campus histories of slavery, exclusion, segregation, and bias on Virginia's physical structures.
Death by Numbers
Transcribing and publishing the London Bills of Mortality in a dataset suitable for computational analysis.
Pandemic Religion
Documenting American religion in a time of pandemic.
Collecting These Times
Documenting how American Jews responded to the coronavirus pandemic.
Connecting the Interstates
Visualizing and critically examining the development of the U.S. interstate highway system.
Mapping Identity in Magna Graecia
Mapping instances of Hephaistion across areas with linguistic Attic-Ionic foundation.
a thousand little fires
Share what we create while reconciling with self-isolation.
Nebraska Historical
Curating histories of Nebraska and the Northern Plains.
U.S. Federal Lands
Mapping the federal lands of the United States.
Machines in the Valley
A spatial history and digital narrative of Silicon Valley.
Cody & the Progressive Wild West
Debates over Reformist and Enabling Progressives in the Wild West.
William F. Cody Archive
Digitizing the papers of William F. Cody.
Geography of the Post
The spread of 14,000 post offices across the nineteenth-century American West.
Omaha Zoning
Visualizing single-family and multifamily zoning.
Every Lot Omaha
Every property parcel in Omaha, one tweet at a time.
#deletefacebook
Scraping Twitter to explore trends in #deletefacebook.
Endangered Data Week
Raising awareness about threats to public data.
Mobile Community Archives
Partnering with community archives throughout the Great Plains.
American Indian Digital History Project
Digitizing Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials across Native North America.
Mapping Omaha Bikes
The most dangerous areas in Omaha for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Western Federal Lands
Visualizing the federal government's holdings of Western land.
Prussian Foodstuffs
Exploring changes in taste among food items at the palace in Königsberg, Prussia during the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm. Collaboration with Molly Taylor-Poleskey.
Marriage of Thames and Rhine
An interactive narrative of the journey of the court of Prince-Elector Friedrich Wilhelm. Collaboration with Molly Taylor-Poleskey.
Chinese Computing
Visualizing 21st century Chinese writing. Collaboration with Tom Mullaney.
The First Draft
Discussions about higher education, digital humanities, technology, games, and learning. Hosted by Elijah Meeks, Jason Heppler & Paul Zenke.
Wars of the United States
Visualizing the wars of the United States.
What is Digital Humanities?
Perpetual answers to the perpetual question.
Framing Red Power
Exploring how the media covered the Trail of Broken Treaties.