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As technologies change our environments for reading, writing and research, it is incumbent on our scholarly organizations to take note. And what group is better prepared to explore our digital future than the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing SHARP, dedicated as it is to the interdisciplinary study of the history of …
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I spent a good three days this past month tiling my kitchen backsplash, and I'm not sure as of today whether, given what I know now and a second chance, I would have done it myself or hired someone to do it for me. But, what's done is done! I finished it, and I suppose …
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“The London Spy” (Ned [Edward] Ward) mentions a rope-walker whose ‘Tyburn locks foretold such an unhappy destiny that I was fearful of his falling, lest his hempen pedestal should have catch’d his neck. He commanded the rope to be alter’d according to his mind with such an affected lordliness that, by his imperious deportment, I …
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The early eighteenth-century entertainment economy can be characterized by its variety and its modernity. The participatory spaces of entertainment were newly shaped by public debate and the world of print; in this brave new world of print and plenty, the mass audience begins to take shape. One component of this modern entertainment economy that has …
Just to see how a WP site would work for our purposes, I created a sample site. Some things that occurred to me: Wouldn't it be great to have different users for all the letter writers in the novel? How would this work, though, when the posts are exported for later use? Typically, authors are …
By Kathryn Crowther I was so inspired by how excitedly and with what hands-on innovation the students had responded to the assignment that it led me re-think a lot of my traditional assignments. I started examining the ways that more innovative pedagogy – pushing the boundaries of my own knowledge and comfort – -could inspire …
Among the many sessions I participated in at this year's CHNM THATCamp, one of the most interesting to me was on the future of "digital literacy," proposed by Jeff McClurken. The concept of digital literacy has continued to show up in University missions, QEPs, "outcomes," and general pedagogical discourse--I know I've routinely encountered it in …
Today, it is increasingly difficult for scholars to do historical, primary source research without institutional access to fulltext databases like Early English Books Online, Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, and the 17th and 18th Century Newspaper Collections, among others. These resources are often prohibitively expensive for smaller colleges and universities, and travel funding for archival research is …
This recipe is essentially from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, though I experimented with the additions. It makes between 12 and 24 brownies, depending on how you cut them. Enjoy! 2 oz of baking chocolate, the darker the better. For the chili brownies, I used this Guajillo Mexican Chili Chocolate, and I added a …
So, I've been thinking about my courses for Fall 2011 (yes, I know, the summer's just started...), and given the energy residue from THATCamp CHNM, I wanted to get some ideas jotted down in a more accessible space than my moleskine. There was a lot of discussion about backchannels this weekend, and while I'm thinking …
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Tonya Howe 