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.

History Conversations

Well, nearly four months after it launched, I have finally managed to record and post the first real episode of History Conversations, this blog's sister podcast.  Episode 1 kicks off with

Born Too Late: A History Meme

For people who don't already know about internet memes this may not be very interesting.  Unfortunately I don't have time to explain before I take off on my summer

Notes on Blog Design, or Why I Changed

Those few of you who visit the Found History site directly (as opposed to reading posts with a feed reader), will know that over the weekend I overhauled the blog's basic

Bowie's in Space

One last music post before I return to Found History's bread and butter. If you haven't been watching HBO's Flight of the Conchords, you're really