Digital History

Generative AI lacks the ability to understand context, historical ambiguity, and cannot generate new knowledge, rendering it inadequate for certain kinds of historical research and meaningless for education.

Generative AI shows potential as a tool for synthesis and analysis in history, but we should remain skeptical about its utility and ethical implications.

My contribution to the working paper on arguing with digital history.

An overview of the keynote address I gave at the 2017 Midwestern History Conference.

My syllabus for Stanford's Digital Public History.

I made an open notebook with Jekyll.

Announcing the release of my dissertation's digital history component.

How and why we designed Geography of the Post.

My syllabus for my digital history class I'm teaching at Stanford.

My interview with Michael Childers at BlogWest.

Launching Stanford's initiatives in digital history.

My work as a digital historian at Stanford.

A positive development: The AHA has formed a task force on digital scholarship.

My open access book on Ruby programming for historians.

My peer review of 'The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing' by Fred Gibbs and Trevor Owens.

A reading reflection on Franco Moretti for HIST946.

A few examples of what I think are great design in digital humanities.

A thought piece on Marshall McLuhan for HIST946.

A reflection on knowledge for HIST946.

How should we consider the role of design in digital history?

Digital history is an ongoing process of refinement, narrative, and archiving.

The web holds an exciting promise for history, if we reach for it.

How I incorporated digital history into my Master's thesis.

Here's how I would introduce someone to digital history.

Thoughts on the role of design and digital history.

Digital history is, by its very nature, open.

Digital history in the latest Journal of American History.

Historians have to play a role in defining good history on the web.