Tom Scheinfeldt

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.

THATCamp Deadline Approaching

Just a quick reminder to Found History readers that the THATCamp deadline is quickly approaching and space is getting tight. We've received lots of great applications, and it promises to be

Federal Funding for the Humanities

Yesterday I spoke at the 2008 conference of the National Humanities Alliance on a panel entitled "Federal Support for History." The purpose of the talk was to give some concrete examples

Twitter as a tool for outreach

In an earlier post I wrote about the early buzz around Omeka, both in the forums and among education, museum, public history, and library bloggers.  One thing I didn't mention—and

Briefly Noted for February 27, 2008

A Year Before is a WordPress plugin allowing users to display titles of articles posted n number of days ago. Its developers suggest using it in a "historical corner" to show