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.

www.foundhistory.org

With help from Ammon, I have finally managed to give Found History the respectable URL it deserves, replacing the ponderous http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/scheinfeldt/foundhistory/ with the elegant www.foundhistory.org

TagLines

If you haven't done so already, visit Yahoo's TagLines now.  A rolling timeline of the eight most popular Flickr tags for each day since 2004, TagLines is the most

FuturesWatch Timeline

Here's another (crazy) example of how futurists (science fiction writers, etc.) look to history for process and inspiration.  The FuturesWatch timeline begins in 1750 and simply carries forward to 2100 as

Yellow Arrow

Here's another instance of amateurs beating professionals to the punch. There has been a lot of talk lately among a certain set of public historians (lots of it at CHNM, in