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Digital History and the Public: Envisioning the Mississippi Valley of the Nineteenth Century

Digital History and the Public: Envisioning the Mississippi Valley of the Nineteenth Century : ENVISIONING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Although a number of leading scholars have rued the historical discipline’s increasingly tenuous ties to a general audience, academic historians and librarians have largely overlooked the World Wide Web’s ability to reach this audience in new ways.1 Instead, they have used new technologies largely to pursue disciplinary research agendas and develop a set of digital library resources designed with a limited audience in mind. This article suggests that a new approach to the use of digital technology can help scholars, with librarians’ assistance, to reinvigorate their relationship with the broader public. It uses a discussion of the Mark Twain’s Mississippi Project (http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain), a digital library web site developed at Northern Illinois University Libraries in collaboration with Tulane University Libraries, the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and the Newberry Library, to suggest how academic humanists and librarians can work together, using a variety of media types, to create a new type of digital resource reaching beyond their familiar, specialised discourses. Framed by a focus on Mark Twain, one of American history’s most celebrated public figures and his colourful evocations of a specific past place, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Edinburgh University Press

Digital History and the Public: Envisioning the Mississippi Valley of the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© Edinburgh University Press and the Association of History and Computing 2008
Subject
Historical Studies
ISSN
1753-8548
eISSN
1755-1706
DOI
10.3366/E1753854808000220
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Abstract

: ENVISIONING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Although a number of leading scholars have rued the historical discipline’s increasingly tenuous ties to a general audience, academic historians and librarians have largely overlooked the World Wide Web’s ability to reach this audience in new ways.1 Instead, they have used new technologies largely to pursue disciplinary research agendas and develop a set of digital library resources designed with a limited audience in mind. This article suggests that a new approach to the use of digital technology can help scholars, with librarians’ assistance, to reinvigorate their relationship with the broader public. It uses a discussion of the Mark Twain’s Mississippi Project (http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain), a digital library web site developed at Northern Illinois University Libraries in collaboration with Tulane University Libraries, the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and the Newberry Library, to suggest how academic humanists and librarians can work together, using a variety of media types, to create a new type of digital resource reaching beyond their familiar, specialised discourses. Framed by a focus on Mark Twain, one of American history’s most celebrated public figures and his colourful evocations of a specific past place,

Journal

International Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingEdinburgh University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2007

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