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This schedule, like the rest of the syllabus, is a living document and is subject to change. I will update the schedule with specific readings and assignment details as we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday January 17 –  Introductions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In class: <\/em>
\u2022 Join class Poll Everywhere
\u2022 Join class Slack
\u2022 Complete Course Survey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday January 19 – Defining Digital History <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before class: <\/em>
\u2022 Review syllabus. Questions?
\u2022 Sheila Brennan, \u201cDigital History,\u201d<\/a> June 4, 2019.
\u2022 Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, \u201cIntroduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History\u201d<\/a> in Digital History<\/em>, Center for History and New Media, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 2 (Assignment: Setting Up Your Website)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday January 22 – Colliding Cultures in the New World<\/strong>

Before class: <\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 1<\/a>, sections I. Introduction, and II. The First Americans
\u2022 Megan O\u2019Neil, \u201cConfronting the Myth of the \u2018Digital Native\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, April 21, 2014. (Posted in Canvas)
\u2022 Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner, and Brian Coxall, \u201cCreating Your Web Presence<\/a>,\u201d Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, February 14, 2011. (Posted in Canvas)

After class: <\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Set up your website<\/a>, due Sunday January 28 at midnight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday January 24 – The Internet: History<\/strong>

Before class: <\/em>
\u2022 Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, \u201cGetting Started<\/a>\u201d  in Digital History<\/em>, Center for History and New Media, 2005. 
\u2022 Video: History of the Internet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday January 26 – The Internet: How It Works<\/strong>

Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Video: The Internet: Packets, Routing & Reliability<\/a>

In Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Writing with HTML<\/a>
\u2022 Video: Most Popular Desktop Browsers 1993 – 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 3 (Individual Meetings about Final Project)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday January 29 – Searching and Security<\/strong>

Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 “How Google perfected the web,”<\/a> The Verge<\/em>, January 8, 2024
\u2022 Wikipedia, \u201cList of the most common passwords\u201d<\/a>
\u2022 \u201cHow Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking,\u201d Wired<\/em>, August 6, 2012 (Posted in Canvas)

In Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Quiz: Pew Research Center, \u201cHow Much Do You Know About Cybersecurity?\u201d<\/a> (March 22, 2017)

After class: <\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Individual Meeting about Final Project<\/a>, must be completed between Monday January 29 and Friday February 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday January 31 – Digitization, Transcription and OCR<\/strong><\/strong>

Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, \u201cBecoming Digital,\u201d<\/a> in Digital History<\/em>, Center for History and New Media, 2005.
\u2022 Helen Thompson, \u201cThe Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)<\/a>,\u201d August 12, 2014.
\u2022 Ryan Cordell, “Why You (A Humanist) Should Care About Optical Character Recognition,”<\/a> January 10, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday February 2 – <\/strong> Digital Preservation and Sustainability<\/strong>

Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, \u201cPreserving Digital History,\u201d<\/a> in Digital History<\/em>, Center for History and New Media, 2005.
\u2022 Library of Congress, \u201cSustainability of Digital Formats,\u201d Introduction<\/a> and Sustainability Factors<\/a>
\u2022 Jennifer Howard, \u201cBorn Digital, Projects Need Attention to Survive,\u201d<\/a> Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, January 6, 2014. (Posted in Canvas)

In Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Internet Archive, WayBack Machine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 4 (Digital History Project Review)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday February 5 – Indigenous Early America<\/strong>
Guest Speaker: Dr. Zachary Conn, SMU

After class: <\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Digital History Project Review<\/a>, Part 1 due Tuesday 2\/6 at midnight, Part 2 due Friday 2\/9 at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday February 7 – Violence and Race<\/strong>

Before Class<\/em>:
\u2022 American Yawp, Ch. 3<\/a>, sections I. Introduction; II. Slavery and the Making of Race; V. Riot, Rebellion, and Revolt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday February 9 – Text Analysis<\/strong><\/strong>
Guest Speaker: Rafia Mirza, Research Librarian for Digital Scholarship, SMU

Before Class<\/em>:
\u2022 Cameron Blevins,\u00a0\u201cTopic Modeling Martha Ballard\u2019s Diary<\/a>,\u201d April 1, 2010
\u2022 First 3 sections (Introduction, Methods, Results & Analysis) in\u00a0Joshua Catalano and Briana Pocratsky, “What\u2019s on History? Tuning In to Conspiracies, Capitalism, and Masculinity<\/a>,” Current Research in Digital History<\/em> 3 (28 October 2020).
\u2022 Sections I.1-2, II. 1-6 in Ted Underwood, \u201cWhere to Start with Text Mining<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0The Stone and the Shell<\/em>, August 14, 2012.

In Class:<\/em>
\u2022 <\/a>Text Analysis In-Class Activity<\/a>
\u2022 Google Books: Ngram Viewer<\/a>
\u2022 Voyant: Readex African American Periodicals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 5 (Primary and Secondary Sources Blog)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday February 12 – International Slave Trade<\/strong>
Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Sign up for account with Zotero<\/a>
\u2022 American Yawp, Ch. 4<\/a>, section III. Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Atlantic Exchange
\u2022 Primary Source: Olaudah Equiano Describes the Middle Passage, 1789<\/a>
\u2022 Image: Print of the slave ship Brookes, 1789<\/a>
\u2022 Project: Explore the Trans-Atlantic portion of Slave Voyages<\/a>. Specifically look at The Enslavement of Africans<\/a>, Timeline and Chronology<\/a>, Methodology: Introduction<\/a> and Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday February 14 – Digital Sources<\/strong>
In Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Guest Speaker: Pam Pagels, Research Librarian, SMU
\u2022 History Research Guide<\/a>

After Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Primary and secondary sources blog<\/a>, due Tuesday February 20<\/s> Thursday February 22 at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday February 16 – Slavery<\/strong>
Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804<\/em>. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Ch. 1, Section Americas<\/em>, pg. 13\u201323. (Canvas)
\u2022 Covart, Liz, host. “Episode 170: Wendy Warren, New England Bound: Slavery in Early New England.<\/a>” Ben Franklin’s World (podcast). January 23, 2018. Listen to sections 7:00-10:12 and 13:00-14:57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 6 (Preparing for the Midterm Assignment)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday February 19 – Consumption and Trade<\/strong><\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 4<\/a>, section II. Consumption and Trade in the British Atlantic
\u2022 Taylor, American Revolutions<\/em>. Ch. 1, Section Commerce<\/em>, pg. 23-26. (Canvas)
\u2022 Ann Smart Martin, Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia<\/em>, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. pg. 1\u201310, 36\u201341, and 173\u2013186. (E-book access<\/a> through SMU Libraries)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday February 21 – Metadata<\/strong>
Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Video: What is metadata? (and why does it matter?)<\/a>

After Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Preparing for the Midterm<\/a>, due Tuesday February 27 at midnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday February 23 – Colonial Society<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 4<\/a>, section IV. Pursuing Political, Religious and Individual Freedom
\u2022 Taylor, American Revolutions<\/em>. Ch. 1, Sections Coverture<\/em> and Faiths<\/em>. pg. 27\u201331. (Canvas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 7 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday February 26 – Colonial Conflict<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 4<\/a>, section V. Seven Years\u2019 War, and section VI. Pontiac\u2019s War<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday February 28 –  Copyright and AI<\/strong>
Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Owning the Past<\/a>,” in Digital History<\/em>, Center for History and New Media, 2005.
\u2022 Video: Copyright Basics<\/a>
\u2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center, “Quoting and Paraphrasing<\/a>.”
\u2022 Josh Dzieza, “How AI can make history<\/a>,” The Verge<\/em>, February 15, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday March 1 – Prelude to Revolution<\/strong>
Before Class<\/em>:
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 5<\/a>, sections I. Introduction, II. The Origins of the American Revolution and III. The Causes of the American Revolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 8<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday March 4 \u2013 Study for Midterm: NO CLASS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday March 5 – Optional Study Session for Midterm<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday March 6 \u2013 Midterm Exam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday March 8 \u2013 Historical Thinking: NO CLASS
<\/strong>Historical Thinking Take Home Assignment<\/a>, due Monday March 18th at 11am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NO CLASS – Spring Break (March 11, 13, 15)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Week 9 (Dataset Assignment and Blog)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday March 18 – Independence<\/strong>
Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 5<\/a>, section IV. Independence, V. The War for Independence, VI. The Consequences of the American Revolution, VII. Conclusion
\u2022 Primary Source: Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday March 20 – Spreadsheet and Databases, Part 1<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Sign up<\/a> for a Google account (if you don’t already have one) so that you have access to Google Sheets.
\u2022 Mattia Viale, “From the historical source to a database: a short story<\/a>,” November 21, 2018, Refashioning the Renaissance<\/em> (blog).
\u2022 Robert Kosara, \u201cSpreadsheet Thinking vs Database Thinking<\/a>,” April 24, 2016.
\u2022 Slave Voyages: Methodology<\/a>, Variable List<\/a> and Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday March 22 – Spreadsheet and Databases, Part 2<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Sign up<\/a> for the basic level (free) Airtable account. Make sure to use your smu.edu email when you sign up.
\u2022 Stephen Ramsay, “Databases<\/a>,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities<\/em>, ed. Susan Schriebman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth.
\u2022 Video: Database Tutorial for Beginners<\/a>, 0:13-3:06.
\u2022 Airtable, Setting Up Field Types<\/a>.
\u2022 Airtable, A Beginners Guide to many-to-many relationships<\/a>.
\u2022 Airtable, Linking Between Tables<\/a>

After class: <\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Dataset Assignment and Blog<\/a>, Part 1 due Tuesday 3\/26 at midnight, Part 2 due Thursday 3\/28 at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 10<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday March 25 – Evaluating Sources and Visualizations<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 UC Berkeley Library, \u201cEvaluating web pages.\u201d<\/a>
\u2022 Video: “Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information.”<\/a>
\u2022 Abby Mullen, \u201cVisualizations.\u201d (posted in Slack)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday March 27 – Revolution(s) Continue<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 6<\/a>, section II. Shays\u2019 Rebellion, section VII. The Whiskey Rebellion and Jay\u2019s Treaty, and section VIII. The French Revolution and the Limits of Liberty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday March 29 \u2013 Good Friday: NO CLASS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 11 (Visualization Assignment and Blog)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday April 1 \u2013 Visualizations, Part 1<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 John Theibault, \u201cVisualizations and Historical Arguments\u201d<\/a> in Writing History in the Digital Age<\/em>, ed. Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty.

In Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Workshop for Timeline.JS<\/a>

After Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Visualization assignment<\/a>, Part 1 due Thursday 4\/4 at midnight, Part 2 due Tuesday 4\/9<\/s> Thursday 4\/11 at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday April 3 – Visualizations, Part 2<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Sign up for a Tableau Public<\/a> account (in-browser) or Tableau Student<\/a> account (desktop) using your SMU information.
\u2022 Joshua Catalano, \u201cDigitally Analyzing the Uneven Ground: Language Borrowing Among Indian Treaties,\u201d<\/a> Current Research in Digital History <\/em>1 (2018).
\u2022 Caroline Winterer, \u201cWhere is America in the Republic of Letters?,\u201d<\/a> Modern Intellectual History <\/em>9, no. 3 (2012). Read pages 597\u2013615.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday April 5 \u2013 Eclipses in Early America <\/strong>
In Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Tableau Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 12 (Spatial History\/Early Politics Blog)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday April 8 \u2013 Solar Eclipse: NO CLASS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday April 10 \u2013 Politics in the New Republic<\/strong>
Before Class:
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 6<\/a>, section III. The Constitutional Convention, section IV. Ratifying the Constitution, section V. Rights and Compromises, and section X. The Election of 1800
\u2022 Rosemarie Zagarri, \u201cWhat Did Democracy Look Like? Voting in Early America\u201d<\/a> and \u201cPolitical Parties in the Early Republic.\u201d<\/a> Mapping Early American Elections<\/em>, 2017-2019.
\u2022 Project to Explore: Mapping Early American Elections<\/a>

After Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Assignment: Spatial History\/Early Politics Blog<\/a> due Tuesday 4\/16 at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday April 12 – Mapping and GIS, Part 1<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Richard White, \u201cWhat is Spatial History?”<\/a>, 2010.
\u2022 Todd Presner and David Shepard, \u201cMapping the Geospatial Turn,\u201d<\/a> In A New Companion to Digital Humanities<\/em>, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015), 247-256. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 13 (Mapping\/GIS Assignment and Blog)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday April 15 – Mapping and GIS, Part 2<\/strong>
Before Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Tim Hitchcock, \u201cPlace and the Politics of the Past,\u201d<\/a> Historyonics<\/em> (July 11, 2012).
\u2022 Projects (explore at least 2): Creating the American South, 1790-1860<\/a>, Photogrammer<\/a>, Canals: 1820-1890<\/a>, Forced Migration<\/a>. Think about how these projects are using maps for analysis and presentation.<\/em>

In Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Lincoln Mullen, “Georectification<\/a>” from \u201cSpatial Humanities Workshop.\u201d

After Class:<\/em>
\u2022 GIS Assignment<\/a>, Part 1 due Thursday 4\/18 at midnight, Part 2 due Tuesday 4\/23 at midnight.

Wednesday April 17 \u2013 Mapping and GIS, Part 3<\/strong>
In Class: <\/em>
\u2022 ArcGIS Online<\/a> Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday April 19 – Programing<\/strong><\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Video: Intro to Scratch<\/a>
\u2022 Explore: Scratch<\/a>
\u2022 Practice: Blockly Maze<\/a>

In Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Create a simple project in Scratch<\/a> using one of their tutorials<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 14 (Final Project)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday April 22 – Early American Republic<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 7<\/a> section III. Jeffersonian Republicanism, section IV. Jefferson as President, and section V. Native American Power and the United States

After Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Final Project<\/a>, due due 5\/2 at 11:30am<\/strong>
\u2022 Final Project Presentation<\/a>, 4\/26, 4\/29, 5\/2. Sign up link in Slack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday April 24 – War of 1812<\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022American Yawp<\/em>, Ch. 7<\/a> section VI. The War of 1812
\u2022 Video: Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812<\/a>, 4:20-21:00 and 32:52-35:30
\u2022 Video: The Burning of Washington, D.C.<\/a>

Friday April 26 – Early American History Wrap Up, Final Project Presentations<\/strong>
After Class:<\/em>
\u2022 Post-Course Survey: Link in Slack, due 5\/2 at 11:30am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 15 (Final Project)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday April 29 \u2013 Podcasting,<\/strong><\/strong> Final Project Presentations<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
Before Class: <\/em>
\u2022 Select one episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast<\/a> that corresponds to the topic you have selected for your final project. Listen to it and take notes. Be ready to answer this reflection prompt about the podcast you selected: What was the episode about and what was the most important thing you learned about your topic?

Tuesday April 30 – NO CLASS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday May 2 – Final Project<\/strong>
\u2022 Final Exam Period: 11:30am\u20132:30pm
\u2022 Final project<\/a> due 5\/2 at 11:30am<\/strong>
\u2022 Final Project Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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