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What We’re Reading: May 27, 2010 Edition
Last week, former president of the AHA Jonathan Spence gave the 39th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. We start off this week with two related links on what he said. Then, John Fea live blogs the...
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What We’re Reading: June 24, 2010 Edition
Last week the AHA announced its new report (with the OAH and NCPH) on how public history should factor in to tenure and promotion proceedings, and this week Inside Higher Ed takes note. In other news,...
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What We’re Reading: August 5, 2010 Edition
New this week, the FBI has released Howard Zinn’s security file, historian Michael A. Bellesiles attempts to shed past controversy, the National Library of Medicine digitizes a 19th century manuscript,...
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What We’re Reading: September 2, 2010 Edition
In the news this week, the Oxford English Dictionary says goodbye to print, NARA releases a new report on Web 2.0 tools, and the New York Times publishes an obituary for David Weber. Also read about a...
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What We’re Reading: October 21, 2010 Edition
In the news this week, Google is assisting in making the Dead Sea Scrolls available online in the near future, a Virginia textbook has been criticized for misrepresenting the numbers of black...
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Do Digital Docs Need Page Numbers?
From time to time, we receive requests from authors for bibliographic information about articles—their own or by others—they have seen on the Perspectives Online web site. As often as not, they are...
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What We’re Reading: June 30, 2011 Edition
To begin this week, check out an article by Stan Katz on faculty productivity, learn about a recent workshop on environmental history, read a review of five new books on the Civil War, and discover a...
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Help Transcribe Historic Menus
The New York Public Library needs your help in transcribing its collection of over 10,000 digitized historic restaurant menus at its “What’s on the Menu” site. These menus are morsels of history that...
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What We’re Reading: September 4th, 2014
Today’s What We’re Reading features IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook, Great Depression photography, resources for teaching the Ebola crisis, and much more! History: Real and Imagined How Disease Decimated...
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What We’re Reading: October 30, 2014
Today’s What We’re Reading features memory of Seneca Falls, a Vatican digitization project, the oddity of candy corn, and much, much more! What We’re Reading Vatican Library Digitizes Ancient...
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