Lab 2: TimeLine.js

Week 2: What is Digital History and Who are Digital Historians – January 20

Reading:

• Chad Gaffield, “Clio and Computers in Canada and Beyond: Contested Past, Promising Present, Uncertain Future,” Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 559–84, https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2020-0020.
• Kimberley Martin, “Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada,” Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 622–40, https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2020-0021.
• Sharon Leon, “Complicating a “Great Man” Narrative of Digital History in the United States,” Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, E Losh and J Wernimount, ed., University of Minnesota Press, 2018 https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-4e08b137-aec5-49a4-83c0-38258425f145/section/53838061-eb08-4f46-ace0-e6b15e4bf5bf#ch19
• Stephen Robertson, “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2016 edition, http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/76. 

Lab 2:

• Explore some examples on Timeline.js: https://timeline.knightlab.com/
•  Think of a topic that has images, maps, texts and videos (the easiest option is to find a Wikipedia site with lots of images.)
• Build a timeline and create a blog on your site with a link to the timeline. The university WordPress doesn’t let us embed the timeline.

Here is my incomplete timeline for the Great Smog in London: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1pYlNIDrpJ0q_kVW7Lsxmu1oL2jZSm-L7Pd-e1e-9ui8&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

Homework due January 26: Complete your first required blog post on an academic digital history project. What is it? What does it offer? Is it valuable? Representative?

1. The Liberated Africans Project: http://www.liberatedafricans.org/
2. Map of Early Modern London: https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/
3. 9/11 Digital Archive: http://911digitalarchive.org
4. Geography of the Post: U.S. Post Offices in the Nineteenth-Century West http://www.cameronblevins.org/gotp/
5. The Old Bailey Online: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
6. Mapping the Republic of Letters: http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
7. Quantifying Kissinger: http://blog.quantifyingkissinger.com/
8. Digital Harlem: http://digitalharlem.org/
9. Occupy Web Archive: http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/occupy
10. Returning the Voices to Kouchibouguac National Park: http://returningthevoices.ca
11. Old Maps Online: http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
12. American Panorama: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/:
13. Enchanting the Desert: http://enchantingthedesert.com/home/
14. The Lucas-Heaton Letters: http://loudounmuseum.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=8f83bd92c18f40dfbb4a455acbe85f2d&webmap=d69b68d0e43445f8baea7eb27b9f49c4
15. Canada is the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: https://lglc.ca/
16. Musical Passage: http://www.musicalpassage.org/#home
17. Mapping Occupation: http://mappingoccupation.org/
18. Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
19. Coloured Conventions: http://coloredconventions.org/
20. Wearing gay history: http://www.wearinggayhistory.com/
21. Becoming Richard Pryor: http://www.becomingrichardpryor.com/pryors-peoria/era/1919-1941/
22. Canada’s Year Without a Summer: http://niche-canada.org/yearwithoutasummer/
23. 100 Years of In Flanders Fields: http://cityofguelph.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=f39b056d38fe460f8269eed11eb3cd66
24. Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
25. Clio Visualizing History: https://www.cliohistory.org/
26. Any other significant digital history project, but please check with me first.