Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about
the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the
last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this
transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on
campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content,
and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy
Internet access.
Teaching History in the Digital Age serves as a guide for
practitioners on how to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of
digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history. T.
Mills Kelly synthesizes more than two decades of research in digital
history, offering practical advice on how to make best use of the
results of this synthesis in the classroom and new ways of thinking
about pedagogy in the digital humanities.