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