THE HIPPIE HISTORIAN

In in Monday’s Digital History course we explored the various ways that text analysis and topic modelling are being used to understand...

Just recently, I was directed to the website Serendip-o-matic which uses words, key phrases or big sections of your own text to pull...

At a recent talk by Claire Campbell, I was taken by her idea that too many heritage sites depict only a moment in time rather than a full...

For this Friday’s romp to a historical site I thought I’d expose my readers to the train stations of Tillsonburg. I do plan on taking...

Whenever I say I’m from Tillsonburg, one of the first things people respond with is “Tillsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that...

Neil Young performing at the Riverboat Coffeehouse, 1965. Photo credit: Manfred Buchheit This week for my digital history course I was...

Check out this cool medal my sister has from my great-grandpa! He was a first place shooting champion in 1932 with the National Rifle...

Every Friday I will be traveling to a different historic site or interesting place for historians (and the general public) to visit. ...

If you’re looking for a book that really makes you question your previous notions, look no further than Christopher Browning’s Ordinary...

In his autobiography, Neil Young tells the intimate details of his life as a kid in Omemee, Ontario to a full-blown rock legend and let...

After two hours of grappling with this very question in my Digital History course, and thinking about it since, I have finally begun to...

So I am a little late writing about this Friday’s visit to a site of historical interest but here it is! This past Friday my Public...