scholarly journals Teaching Local History Using Digital Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 361-367
Author(s):  
Steven Elliott
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Local History ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
History Of ◽  
Best Fit

This article shares lessons learned from teaching two related undergraduate courses, History of New Jersey and History of Newark, both at Rutgers University-Newark.  Students in these courses have completed several assignments that asked them to find and analyze primary sources using online databases and repositories.  I share an overview of the assignments, highlight students’ best finds in the course of their research, and assess what aspects of the assignments worked well and what needed improvement.  Overall, this article finds that online primary sources are ample and easily accessible, though their abundance means that students may need assistance in determining what will best fit their projects.

scholarly journals Merekonstruksi Sejarah SUB Komandemen Sumatera Selatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ravico Ravico
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Local History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Dutch Colonial

Local history is often underestimated, so many primary sources of history are neglected and damaged. Therefore, the need for the existence of the museum as a container for the preservation of historical sites. For example, the Museum Subkoss Garuda Sriwijaya, which stores objects of community struggle in Southern Sumatera against the Dutch Colonial. However, lack of interest and information so that many collections in the museum are considered as insignificant data. Therefore, the need to reconstruct the history behind the museum collection as a first step. This research uses historical research methods with steps, namely; heuristics, verification, interpretation and historiography. To analyze the data obtained, the archeological approach is used to study historical heritage objects to find the facts behind the objects. The results of this study confirm that this museum building has a long historical value from its function as a government office during the Dutch and Japanese colonial periods and was once a sub -oss headquarters. In the fight against invaders, there are some relics such as the C3082 steam locomotive, Jeep Willys STD 156 car, flat cannon and landmijn. All of these objects have a long history of maintaining independence.   Keywords :  Museum, History and Subkoss

Mindset and Guidelines: Insights to Enhance Collaborative, Campus-wide, Cross-sectoral Digital Humanities Initiatives

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Gaffield
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of

At the heart of the emergence and development of the Digital Humanities has been the potential to move beyond the out-dated epistemological and metaphysical dichotomies of the later 20th century including quantitative-qualitative, pure-applied, and campus-community. Despite significant steps forward, this potential has been only partially realized as illustrated by DH pioneer Edward L. Ayers’ recent question, ‘Does Digital Scholarship have a future?’ As a way to think through current challenges and opportunities, this paper reflects on the building and initial use of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI). As one of the largest projects in the history of the social sciences and humanities, CCRI enables research on the making of modern Canada by offering complex databases that cover the first half of the twentieth century. Built by scholars from multiple disciplines from coast-to-coast and in collaboration with government agencies and the private sector, CCRI team members came to grips with key DH questions especially those faced by interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, cross-sectoral and internationally-connected initiatives. Thinking through this experience does not generate simple recipes or lessons-learned but does offer promising practices as well as new questions for future scholarly consideration.

scholarly journals Finding and Using Primary Sources to Teach about the Irish Experience in New Jersey

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Augustine J. Curley
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Common Core Standards ◽  
History Of

This article offers a number of ways to find original documents for the teaching of the history of the Irish in New Jersey, citing several documents as examples. Sources suggested include cemeteries, print and online collections of material, and archival repositories. It also suggests strategies for getting the most out of searches. A second section includes references to the relevant New Jersey Common Core Standards.

scholarly journals Does the East of Europe Have a Modern History?

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-230
Author(s):  
M. B. Biskupski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Language ◽  
Broad Region

In February 1990 a major conference dedicated to the recent history of the East of Europe was organised at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. The revised papers, edited by Joseph Held, comprise The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. It is the first major Western-language compendium discussing a broad region of Europe which brings together the talents of prominent specialists and exhibits thorough familiarity with the latest scholarship. Such an undertaking was predestined to yield a volume of significance. The kaleidoscopic developments over the last few years make this work extraordinarily timely and important beyond its obvious scholarly merits.

scholarly journals In memoriam Henry A. Christian

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Janez Stanonik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
American Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
History Of ◽  
In Memoriam

Ruefully the editors of the review Acta Neophilologica announce the loss of our co-worker Henry A. Christian, Professor of American Literature at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He died on 4. April 1997 on his estate at Millburn in New Jersey. For many years he paid in his scholarly researches special attention to the problems of cultural contacts between Slovenia and the United  States in which also Slovenes living in America play an important role: he has approached these problems as an Americanist, interested in the history of American civilization. This is why we wish to remember him on our pages.

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