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Digital History: Overviews, Glossary, Tutorials

Definition, Methods, Subfields, Examples, etc.

Glossary

AHA Digital History Glossary
Defines some of the terms, concepts, and tools of digital history

Method Guides

Introductions and overviews of what digital history is and how and why it is done.

Exploring Big Historical Data by Shawn Graham; Ian Milligan; Scott Weingart
ISBN: 9781783266111
Publication Date: 2015-09-16
Overview of how and why to apply data science to historical materials, focused on computational text and network analysis
Digital History by Roy Rosenzweig; Daniel J. Cohen
ISBN: 9780812219234
Publication Date: 2005-09-27
Early, foundational work on digital history methods that focuses on digital collections

Tutorials

The Programming Historian
Tutorials on digital humanities tools and techniques