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History In The Air, Edward L. Ayers
History In The Air, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
The history in the air never seems to settle to the ground. Polls and tests reveal that plenty of young people do not know about their nation's history -- not to mention the history of other nations. Some connection is not being made.
Doing Scholarship On The Web: 10 Years Of Triumphs And A Disappointment, Edward L. Ayers
Doing Scholarship On The Web: 10 Years Of Triumphs And A Disappointment, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
In the fall of 1991, someone appointed me, a historian, to a committee that oversaw computing at my university. I had long been underfoot in the computer labs, consuming valuable time in front of UNIX workstations, making computerized maps, and running statistical tests for a history of the New South. Now it was time for payback.
Yet despite my years of working with computers, I had little idea at that time of the revolutionary promise that computing held for scholarship in disciplines like my own. More than a decade of living on the Web later, I recognize the potential of …