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.

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.

Newsletter

Tack & Ink

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