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.

Watchismo

Watchismo is a collector and online dealer of vintage watches, especially digital watches, from the mid-20th century.  He describes himself as "devoted to the highly unusual, obscurely rare and advanced modern designs

Colonial Williamsburg on SNL

Saturday Night Live had a funny sketch this weekend exposing the anachronisms inherent in living history museums and exploring how family- and employee-friendly public history venues like Colonial Williamsburg struggle with historical realities

Cartoon History of Classic Rock

Check out Webcomics Nation for Mikael Oskarsson's ambitious graphic history of 60's Rock and Roll.  Follow the story of classic rock legends through eighty-two (yes, that's 82)

More from UWO

Bill Turkel has a fantastic post about the ways people search for history online.  Using search data released by AOL and some statistical methods, Bill has been able to tell us a lot

For Further Reading

This is slightly off-topic, but anyone interested in public history should check out the student blogroll for Alan MacEachern's graduate seminar at the University of Western Ontario.  (Most of MacEachern'