Prerequisites
While the course is designed with students who have at least some exposure to digital humanities in mind, there are no prerequisites for this class. Those with no prior background would benefit from reading the following:
Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History", in: Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, 2006
Daniel Cohen, Michael Frisch, Patrick Gallagher, Steven Mintz, Kirsten Sword, Amy Murrell Taylor, William G. Thomas, III and William J. Turkel, "Interchange: The Promise of Digital History", in: Journal of American History 95:2, pp. 452-491, 2008.
Matthew K. Gold (ed.), "Introduction", in: Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2012
William G. Thomas, II, “Computing and the Historical Imagination” in: A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, 2004