Welcome to HIST 390 – The Digital Past. You’ll find (almost) everything you need for this semester here on this website, so be sure to add it to your bookmarks!

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of information technology within the context of a history course. This course is about how historians do history in today’s digital age. Together, we will explore a variety of existing digital history projects and the digital tools used to create them. You’ll be doing hands-on historical research into a topic of your choice and creating your own digital history projects as you get to know and work with the programs and tools historians use to interrogate the past and present their findings to both academic and public audiences.

Course Information:
Class: HIST 390-003
Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45 AM
Location: Planetary Hall 120
Professor: Caitlin Hartweave
Office Hours: Monday 1-2 PM, Wednesday 2-3 PM
Office Hours Location: Horizon Hall 3220

Credits

This course is based on and inspired by the syllabi, work and sage advice of previous HIST 390 instructors, especially Abby Mullen, Mills Kelly and Dan Howlett, among others. This course would not be possible without them.