I\u2019ve not had much prior experience using digital tools (as you can probably tell from the quality of this website), so I\u2019m looking forward to developing my skills and knowledge in this course. Being proficient with various online resources and tools is a particularly valuable (and hireable!) trait, and it will be useful for me to grow in this area as much as I can while in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital history is one area of focus within the larger field of digital humanities. Digital humanists use a wide variety of digital tools to enhance the study of their discipline, and to make materials relating to their field available to a wide online audience. If this definition seems vague, it’s because the digital humanities encompass a huge variety of different activities and areas of study, from topics traditionally considered a part of the humanities (history, literature, art, music, philosophy, etc.) to a more abstract focus on the digital space itself. Digital history falls under this umbrella, and refers to the practice of employing digital tools in the process of researching and educating about the past. Historians use these tools to digitize and archive primary sources in an accessible manner, to process large amounts of historical data and find patterns, to visualize data in graphs and maps, or to publish their work in a medium that reaches a wider audience and invites more discussion than traditional means of publication. Digital history is an exciting field because integrating these digital tools into historical research can allow historians to examine and present sources in ways that’s never been done before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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