What is digital humanities anyway?

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What Is Digital Humanities?

Jason Heppler, Academic Technology Specialist in the Department of History at Stanford University and historian of the North American West, created a project/website simply called whatisdigitalhumanities.com. It’s goal is simple: To provide perpetual answers to the perpetual question.

“Digital history provides historians new ways to think about historical causation and events through new research methods and visualizations (http://jasonheppler.org/digital/)”.

Hi, I’m Jason.