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A new approach to history: Twitter
This may sound odd at first, but give it a try:
Welcome to TwHistory. We believe that history is filled with exciting stories. We also believe that these stories can be told through Twitter; through the people who lived and experienced them. We go through journals, diaries, letters, and other original sources to deliver the day-to-day lives of people who lived through some of histories most exciting times. We broadcast this information through Twitter, and feel this is a new and exciting approach to understanding history. Instead of reading about a month-long campaign in a few hours, you experience it over the course of a month, in small, 140 character ‘Tweets’.First up: Battle of Gettysburg with Tweets by President Lincoln and many others.
@ Gen_hooker: We have news here that the enemy has reoccupied heights above Fredericksburg. Is that so?A tip of the hat to Kate! Continue reading
Some Interesting Digital Archives
A short item on the American Historical Association (AHA) blog this morning describes several digital archives and their contents. Some of these have government information or complement information found in official government documents.
- Digital Archives, by Jessica Pritchard, AHA Today, May 05, 2009.
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Civil Rights in Mississippi
- Early Americas Digital Archive
- Free Speech Movement
- The National Archives Experience
- The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Big Changes to whitehouse.gov
ProPublica notes that there were big changes to the White House web site this week:
- ChangeTracker Update: Big Changes to WhiteHouse.gov on Obama’s 100th Day, by Brian Boyer, ProPublica, May 1, 2009.
White House on Facebook, etc.
WhiteHouse 2.0, White House Blog, May 1st, 2009.
Today the White House is taking steps to expand how the Administration is communicating with the public, ... In addition to WhiteHouse.gov, you can now find us in a number of other spots on the web...· Facebook.com/WhiteHouse · MySpace.com/WhiteHouse · Twitter.com/WhiteHouse It will be interesting to see if this really works! The first comment I saw was just an unhelpful rant. It might be nice if they took a lesson from sites like slashdot which have figured out how to make comments helpful without censoring anyone. Continue reading
LOC offers Subject Headings as bulk download
"LOC Subject Headings is the first bulk-data download offered under Authorities and Vocabularies at new site: http://id.loc.gov " Again, a hat tip to John Wonderlich! Continue reading
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