History 493B/693B: Digital History
Herter Hall room 640 – Thursdays 2:30 – 5:00 pm

Readings:

  

Many of the readings for this course are available online. Others will be added during the semester (such as relevant blog posts, or articles about emerging technologies). As such, please check back frequently to the online course syllabus and subscribe to the course calendar on Google (I will "share" the calendar with everyone in the course).

In addition, we will be reading the following books, which are available for purchase at Amherst Books in downtown Amherst (or online at http://www.amherstbooks.com).

 

Books:

  

Please purchase the following books (available at the University Bookstore Textbook Annex)

  • Daniel J. Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (978-0812219234) (Note: This is also available online http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
  • Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (978-0262632553)
  • Robin Williams and John Tollett, The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd Edition) (978-0321303370)

 
Software:  

Most of the software you will need to use for this course is either Web-based or freely available for download. However, if you would like to create your own Website from the ground up, you will need to either purchase a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver or locate a computer lab on campus where you will have access to this software. Check with the University Bookstore - there is a student version of the software that can be purchased at a considerable discount. For those who work in areas of oral history or documentary film, there are two multimedia computer labs available for you to use in the DuBois Library.

 

Texts:

  

You will find all of the non-book texts for this course on the internet

 
  • John Willinsky, “Copyright,” chapter from The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Cambridge, MA: MIT 2005) - available on Reserve in the library.