Two courses in the History department this semester are taking advantage of modern technology to better understand the past. Gabriel Pizzorno—a preceptor in the History Department who teaches “History ...

The digitization of natural history collections has transformed centuries-old cabinets of specimens into dynamic digital archives that underpin modern biodiversity science. By converting physical ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Vint Cerf worries the digital history of our age is writ on water. Cerf ...

What makes history special in the Web 2.0 era? Have historians' practices changed as the web has become increasingly participatory? Two texts provide a clearer picture of the components of this new ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has published a commentary in Nature Reviews Biodiversity highlighting how digitization in a contextualized form can be ...

For four years now, I’ve rounded up 10 interesting digital history projects, born in the 12 months previous, for your browsing fun. (Here are my 2015 picks: Part 1. Part 2. Here are the 2014 lists: ...