Open Notebook History
What would happen if historians made their research notes public? What would it look like to make our notebooks "open source"?
What would happen if historians made their research notes public? What would it look like to make our notebooks "open source"?
An essay I wrote in 2012 about my plans to teach a US history survey backwards, starting in the present and moving back to 1848.
A nerdy description of how I used Pandoc and Markdown to write an entire book in plain text.
Some tips for users of the Mutt email client, written in 2012.
Published in 2011, this post reviews some recent scholarly articles on the early American republic and assesses the use of keyword searching in databases of digitized sources.
Drawing on original research, this post provides previously undiscovered evidence about Abraham Lincoln's reference to a liberal party throughout the world.