03
Apr
Red, Green, and Blue
I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's superb Mars Trilogy, an imagined history of humankind's
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Latest
26
Mar
History on the Corner
To commemorate 30 years of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service has started painting its blue corner mailboxes to
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23
Mar
Podcasts
If you haven't subscribed already, Episode 2 of Digital Campus ("The Old and the YouTube") is
13
Mar
Place Names / Time
Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed
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13
Mar
Finding History at Home 2
Today in Digital History Hacks, Bill Turkel imagines a not-so-distant future of "history appliances":
Jazz BandeWave PaintingMean StreetsPaper
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09
Mar
Digital Campus
This is also somewhat off topic, but I'm very pleased to announce the launch of Digital Campus, a
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08
Mar
300
Because it's neither unintentional nor unconventional nor amateur, this may not belong here on Found History. But the
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05
Mar
Oldest Domain Names
Jottings.com has posted a list of the 100 oldest still-registered .com domains. First on the list: Symbolics.com, which
07
Feb
The Object of History
CHNM has just launched a new project called The Object of History. A partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's
31
Jan
Silly from SNL
It's not nearly as subtle as the Colonial Williamsburg sketch from a couple months ago, but here'