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.

About 100 Women

About.com is one of the most confusing places on the web.  It seems to bill itself as one-stop-shopping for reliable "how to" and other information.  The fact that it'

Practicing What It Preaches

I was happy to read in this month's Public History News that the National Council for Public History's Long Range Planning Committee has posted its working definition of "

Tags Over Time

There's a new trend in online amateur history that digital history scholars would do well to notice.  A few months ago I pointed to Yahoo's Taglines, a Flash visualization

Stock Car Rivals

This morning Automobileblog gives us the Five Greatest Rivalries in NASCAR History. No surprises in first place.  It's got to be Ford v. Chevy.