Comments on: Readings in Digital History http://www.stoa.org/archives/559 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: William J. Turkel http://www.stoa.org/archives/559/comment-page-1#comment-48693 William J. Turkel Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:21:25 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=559#comment-48693 We do have a graduate course in digital history now, but haven’t yet had a PhD student do a field in the subject. There’s lots of interest, so who knows? Even though I was never a Boy Scout, I like to be prepared.

I’m not sure if digital history will be a separate field as/when it emerges, a recognized approach to history, or part of a larger digital humanities. I imagine it will get institutionalized different ways in different places, like STS.

]]> By: Tom Elliott http://www.stoa.org/archives/559/comment-page-1#comment-46524 Tom Elliott Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:36:22 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=559#comment-46524 Woops! Didn’t mean to imply that I thought either “history of things digital” or “computational approaches to historical research” were in any way not _real_. I had the impression Bill was creating a reading list for a departmental subfield that doesn’t exist at his institution — one he was therefore imagining …

]]> By: Brian http://www.stoa.org/archives/559/comment-page-1#comment-46512 Brian Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:35:46 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=559#comment-46512 I too am awed by the beauty of the Turkel list. But I wonder: is digital history an “imaginary sub-field”?

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