Digital Humanities

Historical Marker Mashup

Many of you know that over the past year or so CHNM has been trying to secure funding for History Here, a project designed to provide improved access to Virginia's roadside

What is a Museum?

This one comes from Found History reader Tim, who wanted to hear my thoughts on NPR's recent story about the Museum of Online Museums (MOOM), a directory of online collections.  Aside

Looking for (Digital) History?

This one has been making the rounds, and rightly so.  Bill Turkel has posted a very useful and much needed roundup of digital history blogs over at Digital History Hacks.  It's

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

Calendars as Timelines

Jeremy had a post yesterday about the buzz over timelines at CHNM.  For the last year or so, we have been talking a lot about timelines, all of us coming to the topic