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The Future is Here: Digital History at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

The AHA’s 126th Annual Meeting in Chicago this January 5-8, 2012, will feature nearly two dozen sessions on digital history. This series, titled The Future is Here, includes presentations, discussions, and demonstrations of how digital methods might assist historical research and the humanities in general.

For example, sessions will present digital approaches to the Civil War, digital technology in the history classroom, crowdsourcing projects, and more.

The AHA hopes that its meetings will become a hub where scholars and digital technologists come to debate, present new work, and stay up-to-date in research and publishing technology.

See below, and here online, for a full list of these digital history sessions....

Read entire article at AHA Today