The “Wired” West: Digital History at the Western History Association Annual Conference
Andrew Torget and Brent Rogers, speaking on a WHA panel titled “Exploring and Visualizing the Mid-Nineteenth Century West Through Digital History,” each showcased their laudable efforts at using digital tools in historical research. Torget, perhaps best known for his efforts on the Valley of the Shadow archive, spoke primarily about his latest work on slavery in Texas. As he addres

Inspiration Points: Death on my nightstand
It’s certainly just coincidence that as I was reading through Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing last night and considered her ideas about writing being about facing one’s own mortality, I realized that the books on my nightstand all seemed clustered around the theme of death.

Writing History Event: “The Invisible College in the Digital Age,” Sept 24 at Yale
From the Writing History group at Yale: We’ll be discussing “The Invisible College in a Digital Age,” with writer, historian, and fellow graduate student Jana Remy from the History department at UC Irvine. Founder of the “Making History Podcast.” Remy is interested in how digital media can help foster more vigorous (and creative) communities of writer-historians. Join us this Thursday, 4:30pm in HGS 204.