Readings for History 282

An Introduction to History and New Media

Gregory S. Brown
Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

 
Michael O'Malley and Roy Rosenzweig, "Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web," Journal Of American History, (June1997)
<http://chnm.gmu.edu/chnm/jah.html>
 
Carl Smith, "Can You Do Serious History on the Web? " American Historical Association Perspectives, (February, 1998)
<http://chnm.gmu.edu/aha/persp/advanced.taf?function=detail&Layout1_uid1=107>

 

Bruce Jones, "Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World"
<http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/booktext.html>
 
Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext,"
<http://www.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html>
Robert Darnton, "The New Age of the Book"
<http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19990318005F>

 

 
 
Randy Bass, "The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/garden.html
Phil Agre, "Designing Genres for New Media" The Network Observer, (November 1995, vol. 2, number 11)
<http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/tno/november-1995.html#designing>
Gary Marchionini, "Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Iterative Design for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program"
<ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/3694html/3694.html>
Edward Ayres, "The Pasts and the Futures of Digital History"
<http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/PastsFutures.html>
 

Sherry Turkle, "Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace," The American Prospect no. 24 (Winter 1996): 50-57

<http://epn.org/prospect/24/24turk.html>