Because this got buried in my other comment, I am posting it separately here.
I would love to talk about what and how we should teach our students about digital archives. I launched a session in my history methods class last week to uneven results. I would like to talk with others about how we fit digital history into the history methods class.
About Amanda Seligman
AB 1991 Princeton University
PhD 1999 Northwestern University
1999-present, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Author:
Is Graduate School Really for You: The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master’s or PhD (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012); hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions.
Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005); hardcover and paperback.
current projects:
Co-editor, with Margo Anderson, The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee (digital edition to be online at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; print edition under contract with Northern Illinois University Press)
A History of Block Clubs in Chicago (book-length project)
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