04
Jun
Matchstick Titanic
The BBC reports on Welshman Mark Colling's efforts to build a 19ft-long matchstick model of Titanic. The article
Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
03
Jun
Building Histories
I wanted to post this before a new issue came out, but alas I didn't make it in
2 min read
01
Jun
www.foundhistory.org
With help from Ammon, I have finally managed to give Found History the respectable URL it deserves, replacing the ponderous
27
May
TagLines
If you haven't done so already, visit Yahoo's TagLines now. A rolling timeline of the eight
27
May
FuturesWatch Timeline
Here's another (crazy) example of how futurists (science fiction writers, etc.) look to history for process and inspiration.
25
May
"You Have Died of Dysentery"
More history on Rocketboom. Check out Amanda's t-shirt.
23
May
Yellow Arrow
Here's another instance of amateurs beating professionals to the punch.
There has been a lot of talk lately
1 min read
19
May
Amateur Historical Archaeology with Google Maps
He doesn't call it historical archaeology, and there's nothing to suggest he thinks of it that
12
May
The Big Foot Riders of Wounded Knee
Rocketboom had a piece this week on the Big Foot Riders of Wounded Knee. For the past 19 years, a
2 min read
11
May
(retro)blogger
Predictably, the Harvard undergraduate plagiarism scandal has focused more attention on the thief—sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan—than on the thieved,
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