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Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
This volume presents substantially revised and new essays on methodology and approaches in foreign and international relations history.
Producing and Debating History
In 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the respondents argued that they turn to Wikipedia to learn about history and acquire a historical understanding of the past. Wikipedia was ranked higher than other historical activities, such as “Historic site visit,” “Museum visit,” “Genealogy work,” “Social media,” “Podcast/radio program,” “History lecture,” and “History-related video game.” These findings combined with the appropriation of Wikipedia’s corpus by ChatGPT and Wikipedia’s partnership with the most central search engine in the digital world, Google, and ot...
Handbook of Digital Public History
This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in digital public history. Individual studies by internationally renowned public historians, digital humanists, and digital historians elucidate central issues in the field and present a critical account of the major public history accomplishments, research activities, and practices with the public and of their digital context. The handbook applies an international and comparative approach, looks at the historical development of the field, focuses on technical background and the use of specific digital media and tools. Furthermore, the handbook analyzes connections with local communities and different publics worldwide when engaging in digital activities with the past, indicating directions for future research, and teaching activities.
Public History
PUBLIC HISTORY PROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HISTORY Public History: An Introduction from Theory to Application is the first text of its kind to offer both historical background on the ways in which historians have collected, preserved, and interpreted history with and for public audiences in the United States since the nineteenth century to the present and instruction on current practices of public history. This book helps us recognize and critically evaluate how, why, where, and who produces history in public settings. This unique textbook provides a foundation for students advancing to a career in the types of spaces–museums, hist...
The Digital Research Skills Cookbook
Research Platform Services is excited to announce the publication of The Digital Research Skills Cookbook: An Introduction to the Research Bazaar Community. This new publication is a guide to learning and teaching digital research tools. It also explains how to build your own research community. Each chapter includes introductory information about the latest digital tools and 'challenges' that encourage innovative and effective pedagogy. Material is organized to facilitate practical application of digital research skills and to encourage 'learning by doing'. The book includes step-by-step, visual introductions to learning and teaching the following tools: Python, R Studio, Matlab, Twitter Scraping, Textual Analysis with NLTK, TinkerCAD, Inventor, Fusion360, 3D Slicer, Omeka and LaTeX. Employing the latest pedagogical practices, the Digital Research Skills CookBook ensures learning is open and accessible to all. Whether you want to teach yourself or start your own Research Bazaar, this is the book for you!
The Park and the People
Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
Clio Wired
In these essays, Rosenzweig, pioneering historian and self-proclaimed 'technorealist', weighs the effect of new media, digital technology, and the Internet on recording, researching, and teaching history.
Red Lodge and the Mythic West
"Tracing the story of Red Lodge from the 1880s to the present, Christensen tells how a mining town managed to endure the vagaries of the West's unpredictable extractive-industries economy. She connects Red Lodge to a myriad of larger events and historical forces to show how national and regional influences have contributed to the development of local identities, exploring how and why westerners first rejected and then embraced "western" images, and how ethnicity, wilderness, and historic preservation became part of the identity that defined one town."--BOOK JACKET.
