Week 16: Historical Argumentation in Digital History (or: How I Learned To

Love Final Projects)

Presenting Your Arguments Beyond This Class

Theory. DO NOT READ. (Yet)

These are here for you to read after you finish your final projects, so that you have a sense of what you can do with those projects.

Presenting to traditional historians

How do we present our work as argumentation so that other scholars who aren’t digital-history-focused can engage with it? Stephen Robertson, Lincoln Mullen, Arguing with Digital History: Patterns of Historical Interpretation, Journal of Social History , Volume 54, Issue 4, Summer 2021, Pages 1005–1022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shab015

Presenting digital history at the edge of your technical competence

The Journal of Digital History is the 2024 version of “we’re in the future!”.

• The Jupyter notebook writing environment: https://github.com/kalanicraig/dbhr_jdh2023/blob/master/work/article.ipynb
• The public-facing processed version of the article: https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/notebook-viewer/JTJGcHJveHktZ2l0aHVidXNlcmNvbnRlbnQlMkZrYWxhbmljcmFpZyUyRmRiaHJfamRoMjAyMyUyRm1hc3RlciUyRndvcmslMkZhdXRob3JfZ3VpZGVsaW5lX3RlbXBsYXRlLmlweW5i

Grant making and all of its vagaries

Grants aren’t just narratives. There are literally 10 other documents that need to be created in order for you to successfully submit something to a funding agency like the NEH or the NSF. Here’s an example of an unsuccessful grant written about a successful project (2019, after our 2018 funding)

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Lab

We’ll troubleshoot your project prototypes, project charters, and grant- proposal assignments in class, and I will feed you all.