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The Programming Historian calls for digital history argumentation

The Programming Historian has sent out a call for contributors to write several proposed new lessons. If you have expertise in one of these areas, one of these tutorials would be great to write. The...

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A confirmation of Andrew Goldstone on “Teaching Quantitative Methods”

At his blog, Andrew Goldstone has posted a pre-print of his essay on “Teaching Quantitative Methods: What Makes It Hard (in Literary Studies)” for the forthcoming Debates in DH 2018. It’s a “lessons...

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Announcing Current Research in Digital History

Today Stephen Robertson and I are announcing a new conference and peer-reviewed proceedings titled Current Research in Digital History, hosted (and funded) by RRCHNM and George Mason University’s...

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The Places of “Evangelical Gotham”

This review originally appeared at Religion in American History as part of a panel of reviews. New York’s churches 1845 from Roberts, Evangelical Gotham In his elegantly written account, Kyle Roberts...

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USAboundaries v0.3.0 released

I’ve recently published version 0.3.0 of my USAboundaries R package to CRAN. USAboundaries provides access to spatial data for U.S. counties, states, cities, congressional districts, and zip codes. Of...

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Preprint for “The Spine of American Law”

Kellen Funk and I have co-authored an article titled “The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice.” The article has been recently accepted for publication in the American...

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The best writing tip I’ve received

Probably the best writing tip that anyone has given me is that the last sentence of any given paragraph I write should often be the topic sentence of the next paragraph. Once this was pointed out to...

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“The Chance of Salvation” officially published

Today is Harvard University Press’s official publication date for The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America. The book started making its way in the world about a month ago, so the...

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Bibles and Tracts in Print Culture in America

My essay in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion on “Bibles and Tracts in Print Culture in America” was recently published. When it was first released that collection was freely available,...

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Isn’t it obvious?

A common response to digital history research is that has failed to make an argumentative or interpretative payoff commensurate with the amount of effort that has been put into it. Broadly speaking,...

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