Digital history

Digital history studies and communicates the past using digital technologies, computational methods, and networked media. It includes both digital analysis of historical evidence and digital forms of historical interpretation and publication.

Digital humanities: An interdisciplinary field that uses digital technologies and methods to study and communicate human culture. Digital history is one historical specialization within this broader field.
Text mining: Computational methods for extracting patterns and information from text collections. It helps historians examine large corpora beyond close reading alone.
Humanities computing: The use of computers to support research and teaching in the humanities. Earlier humanities computing supplied methods and infrastructure later used in digital history.
Mapping the Republic of Letters: A digital humanities project mapping correspondence and intellectual networks in early modern Europe. It demonstrates how network and spatial visualizations can reveal historical scholarly connections.
Public history: The practice of producing and interpreting history for audiences beyond academic specialists. Digital platforms extend public history through online exhibits, archives, and participatory projects.
Digital archive: A collection of digital materials organized for preservation, access, and use. Digital archives provide historical sources in networked, searchable forms.
Topic modeling: A statistical method that infers recurring themes from patterns of word co-occurrence in documents. It offers one way to explore themes across large historical text collections.
Roy Rosenzweig: An American historian who helped establish digital history as a field and founded the Center for History and New Media. His projects and writing shaped the field's early public and scholarly agenda.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: A scholarly database documenting voyages that forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. It shows how linked datasets support research into a large-scale historical system.
Digital preservation: The managed processes that keep digital information accessible and usable over time. Digital historical collections require preservation as formats, software, and storage systems change.

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