Interchange: The promise of digital history

Journal of American History

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 452-491

  Cohen, Daniel J ^a,b   Frisch, Michael ^a,c,d   Gallagher, Patrick ^e   Mintz, Steven ^f,g   Sword, Kirsten ^h   Taylor, Amy Murrell ^a,i   Thomas III, William G ^a,j   Turkel, William J ^k,l  

^a Department of History ^*

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d Oral History Association

^e Gallagher and Associates

^f Gallagher and Associates ^*

^g Society for the History of Children and Youth

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^l Digital Infrastructure for the Network in Canadian History and Environment

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EID: 53349101639     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25095630     Document Type: Review

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2. Steven Mintz, Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu.
3. See also the digital history textbook, Steven Mintz, Hypertextual History: Our Online American History Textbook, http://www.digitalhistory.uh. edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm.
4. On the benefits of working in a networked mode, see Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven, 2006).
5. Roy Rosenzweig, "Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era," American Historical Review, 108 (June 2003), 735-62.
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13. See also Virginia Center for Digital History, Virginia Runaways, http://people.uvawise.edu/runaways/.
14. On the Digital History Web site, I have developed over seventy "eXplorations," active learning projects involving the analysis of primary sources. Steven Mintz, "explorations," Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/.
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28. Ayers, Valley of the Shadow;
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48. Ibid.
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