Digital & public history
I’ve been designing, developing, and teaching digital and public history for ten years. Most of this work sits at the intersection of digital history, computational research, community-engaged and public-facing work, and design. Find more on GitHub and Observable. For a complete list of my scholarship, please see my full CV.
DataScribe A structured data transcription module for the Omeka S.
Apiary A data API for data-driven research at RRCHNM.
Religious Ecologies Creating new datasets and visualizations so that we can better understand the history of American religion.
Mapping the University Examining Virginia campus histories of slavery, exclusion, segregation, and bias left on the physical structures of the campus.
Death by Numbers Transcribing and publishing the London Bills of Mortality in a dataset suitable for computational analysis.
Pandemic Religion Documenting American religion in a time of pandemic.
Collecting These Times Documenting how American Jews are responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
Connecting the Interstates Visualizing and critically examining the development of the U.S. interstate highway system.
Mapping Identity in Greece and Magna Graecia Mapping the occurrences of Hephaistion in areas and cities with linguistic Attic-Ionic foundation.
a thousand little fires Share what we create while reconciling with self-isolation.
Nebraska Historical Curating histories of Nebraska and the Northern Plains.
U.S. Federal Lands Mapping the federal lands of the U.S.
Omaha Zoning Visualizing single-family and multifamily zoning.
Every Lot Omaha Every property parcel in Omaha, one tweet at a time.
#deletefacebook Scraping Twitter to explore trends in #deletefacebook.
Endangered Data Week Raising awareness about threats to public data.
Mobile Community Archives Partnering with community archives throughout the Great Plains.
American Indian Digital History Project Digitizing Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials across Native North America.
Mapping Omaha Bikes The most dangerous areas in Omaha for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Western Federal Lands Visualizing the federal government's holdings of Western land.
Prussian Foodstuffs Exploring changes in taste among food items at the palace in Königsberg, Prussia during the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm. Collaboration with Molly Taylor-Poleskey.
Marriage of Thames and Rhine An interactive narrative of the journey of the court of Prince-Elector Friedrich Wilhelm. Collaboration with Molly Taylor-Poleskey.
Machines in the Valley: Growth, Conflict, and Environmental Politics in Silicon Valley A spatial history and digital narrative of Silicon Valley.
Chinese Computing Visualizing 21st century Chinese writing. Collaboration with Tom Mullaney.
The First Draft Discussions about higher education, digital humanities, technology, games, and learning. Hosted by Elijah Meeks, Jason Heppler & Paul Zenke.
Wars of the United States Visualizing the wars of the United States.
Geography of the Post Visualizing the spread of 14,000 post offices in the nineteenth-century American West. Collaboration with Cameron Blevins.
William F. Cody Archive Digitizing the papers of William F. Cody.
William F. Cody and the Progressive Wild West Exploring debates over what I called Reformist Progressives and Enabling Progressives.
What is Digital Humanities? Perpetual answers to the perpetual question.
Framing Red Power Exploring how the media covered the Trail of Broken Treaties.