Author: Hannah Pullen
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What is Crowdsourcing and Why is it Important to Digital History?
Dear Travelers, You may have chosen to read this because you were curious what crowdsourcing is and what it has to do with history, and if that is the case, I’m happy to tell you all about it! On the flip side, you may already know about crowdsourcing within history and have a strong opinion…
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Surveying the Field
Dear Travelers, According to Marcello Ravveuts, the transition to digital history is simply a progression from the spoken word to writing to printing to industry to mass communication. The creation of public websites is simply the next step towards progress. The history of Public and Digital history is an interesting one. Historians have been using…
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Public History vs. Digital History
Dear Travelers, While on my adventures throughout graduate school, I have come to ponder the question of what public history is and what digital history is. What are the purposes of each? Are they essentially the same? Or are they fundamentally different? How can these ideas help people understand the woes of historians such as…
Hannah Pullen 