This website is a work in progress. Produced by Chris Brockman, Chris Campbell, Jason Slipp, and John Pettegrew during a summer 2015 graduate student course, the site’s primary purpose is to provide resources for Lehigh University students interested in digital history and humanities. Bibliography of the rapidly increasing scholarly discussion of the field, listing of important digital humanities projects, and links to helpful tools and other resources are among the site’s key components. It further provides the beginnings of a “taxonomy” of digital history and humanities; definitions, frameworks, and forms are very much in the making in this dynamic realm; the site presents something of a toehold, a gateway, a point of reference and departure for those interested in digital history and humanities as a minor field for their Ph.D. comprehensive exams as well as for students embarking on a research project involving digital technology. Four graduate student essays can also be found here; each one examines a specific dimension of developing digital history and humanities within the early-21st century academy.

This website was created simultaneously with the beginning of Lehigh’s Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative and, with that, marks the beginning of a sustained period of examining the potential and limitations of integrating digital history and humanities into academic research as well as creating new projects by students and faculty that extend their research to wider publics by way of digital technology.

For suggestions concerning this site and for more information about digital history at Lehigh, please contact John Pettegrew (jcp5@lehigh.edu).  For information about Lehigh’s Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative, please contact the Director, Professor Ed Whitley, Department of English (edw204@lehigh.edu).

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