Given that the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that occured on 9/11 is just a couple days away, I thought I’d check the databases for information on what I could find. My first thoughts on the website was the simplicity of it. There was a list of newspapers to choose from, you click on one, […]

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The past was analog. The future is digital. Tomorrow’s historians will glory in a largely digital historical record, which will transform the way they research, present, and even preserve the past. But what can today’s historians do with the massive analog historical record of the past millennia? Up until now we have primarily focused on […]

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The idea that webpages are indistinguishable is interesting. I suppose distinguishing one history page from another could be hard, but distinguishing a scholarly website from an entertainment website is easy. Take this gaming news website for an example, and compare it to the Library of Congress. They clearly have a different feel to them – one […]

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On the one hand it’s very intriguing that, as the internet was first coming forth, there was such great hope. Wired publisher Louis Rossetto links the digital revolution to “social changes so profound that their only parallel is probably the discovery of fire.” While I’m not sure if I’d agree it’s as important as the […]

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I’ve decided to add my thoughts for every section/chapter I read, instead of writing out a traditional paper. Dr. Bush makes a very good point that there is too much information out there on any particular field to adequately be articulated by a single person. This is an increasingly problematic situation, especially in the medical […]

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