How Many Slaves Were Refugeed to Confederate Texas?
This post, drawn from a larger project on slavery and its aftermath in Texas, explores the question of how many enslaved people were forcibly brought to Texas during the Civil War.
This post, drawn from a larger project on slavery and its aftermath in Texas, explores the question of how many enslaved people were forcibly brought to Texas during the Civil War.
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.