Schedule

Read:

• David M. Berry, 2011, The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities, Culture Machine 12: 1-22.
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Lisa Marie Rhody, 2014, Working the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows between the Dark and the Light, Differences 25: 1-25.
• Roberto Franzosi, 2017, A Third Road to the Past? Historical Scholarship in the Age of Big Data, Historical Methods 50: 227-244.

Activity: Getting started with R and RStudio

• Install R and RStudio on your machine
• Videos to help you get started with R: these will walk you through sections 2.2 - 2.6 of Humanities Data in R, showing you how to work with R in the command line (Part 1), RStudio console (Part 2a), R scripts (Parts 2b and 3), and R Markdown notebooks (Parts 4a, 4b, and 4c).

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Read:

• Robert A. Gross, 1989, The Machine-Readable Transcendentalists: Cultural History on the Computer, American Quarterly 41: 501-521.
• Steven Ruggles, 1994, The Transformation of American Family Structure, The American Historical Review 99: 103-128.
• James N. Gregory, 1995, The Southern Diaspora and the Urban Dispossessed: Demonstrating the Census Public Use Microdata Samples, The Journal of American History 82: 111-134.

Explore:

• IPUMS-USA. Request user account.
• James N. Gregory, America’s Great Migrations.

Activity: Working with numbers

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Read:

• Bruno Latour, 1986, Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands, Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present 6: 1-40.
• Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar, 1988, Introduction: Sociological Orientations to Representational Practice in Science, Human Studies 11: 99-116.
  
• Johanna Drucker, 2011, Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display, Digital Humanities Quarterly 5:1.
  
• Lauren Klein, 2013, The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings, American Literature 85: 661-688.
  
• Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, 2015, Feminist Data Visualization, Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS Conference. Also see: Catherine D’Ignazio, What Would Feminist Data Visualization Look Like? and Lauren Klein, Feminist Data Visualization; Or, the Shape of History.

Activity: Visualizing quantitative information

Due:

• Notebook 1 (Numbers) 1/28

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Read:

• Susan Schulten, 2012, Slavery and the Origin of Statistical Cartography, pp. 119-155 in Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
• Edward L. Ayers and Scott Nesbit, 2011, Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South, Journal of the Civil War Era 1: 2-34.
• Scott Nesbit, 2014, Visualizing Emancipation: Mapping the End of Slavery in the American Civil War, pp. 427-434 in Justyna Zander and Pieter J. Mosterman, eds., Computation for Humanity: Information Technology to Advance Society (New York: CRC Press).
• Andrew Fialka, 2015, Controlled Chaos: Spatiotemporal Patterns within Missouri’s Irregular Civil War, pp. 43-70 in Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert, eds., The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth (Lexington: Univerity of Kentucky Press).

Explore:

• Greg Downs and Scott Nesbit, Mapping Occupation.
• Scott Nesbit and Edward L. Ayers, Visualizing Emancipation.

Activity: Mapping in R

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Read:

• Cameron Blevins, 2014, Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston, Journal of American History 101: 122-147.
• Cameron Blevins, 2014, Mining and Mapping the Production of Space: A View of the World from Houston, Stanford University Spatial History Project.
• Matthew Wilkens, 2013, The Geographic Imagination of Civil War-Era American Fiction, American Literary History 25: 803-840.
• Robert K. Nelson, 2016, Digital Humanities as Appendix, American Quarterly 68: 131-136.

Explore:

• Mapping Texts.

Activity: Making maps meaningful

Due:

• Proposal for Final Project 2/8
  
• Notebook 2 (Maps) 2/11

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Read:

• Stephen Ramsay, 2011, Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).
  
• Matthew Jockers, 2013, “Part 1: Foundation,” pp. 3-32 in Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).

Activity: Manipulating texts

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Read:

• Matthew Jockers, 2013, “Theme,” pp. 118-153 in Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).
• Lisa Rhody, 2012, Topic Modeling and Figurative Language Journal of Digital Humanities 2: 1.
• Ben Schmidt, 2012, Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities, Journal of Digital Humanities 2: 1.

Activity: Analyzing texts

Due:

• Notebook 3 (Texts) 2/25

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Read:

• David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, 2010 Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, pre-print edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Sections 1.1, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.5, 4.1-4.5, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1-6.2, 12.1-12.2, 13.1-13.5, 18.1-18.6, 19.1, 19.4, 19.6, 21.1, 21.7, 22.4, 22.7-22.9, 23.1-23.5, 23.9, 24.1-24.3.

Explore:

• Viral Texts.

Activity: Edges and nodes

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Read:

• Scott B. Weingart, 2011, Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II, Journal of Digital Humanities 1: 1.
• Caroline Winterer, 2012, Where is America in the Republic of Letters?, Modern Intellectual History 9: 597-623.
• Scott B. Weingart, 2015, Finding the History and Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis 80: 201-213.

Explore:

• Mapping the Republic of Letters

Activity: Visualizing networks

Due:

• Notebook 4 (Networks) 3/11

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Due:

• Final Project 3/21