Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age-
Historians and Computers
Edited by Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University

Fifteen leading pioneers in the marriage of computer technology to history look at how computer technology is changing historical research, teaching, and publication, and how history as a discipline may be altered. Representative articles address H-Net, scholarly publication, on-line reviewing, enhanced lectures using the World Wide Web, and historical research and electronic evidence.

1998. 280 pp. Figures, tables, maps, references, bibliography, index.
0-7656-0178-8 HC $77.95
0-7656-0179-6 PB $39.95

History.edu
Essays on Teaching with Technology
Edited by Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University, and Scott A. Merriman, University of Kentucky

Equally useful to high school and college instructors, this book contains a number of path-breaking studies in history pedagogy, among them the first three published essays measuring qualitatively and quantitatively the successes and failures of "e-teaching" and distance learning. The essays also collectively urge instructors to take the next step with computing technology, which is to build on the passive modes (on-line syllabi, power point presentations, etc.) of teaching history with technology to create more interactive instruction and to develop students' independent and critical thinking. Other essays explore costs and planning, and implementation suggestions for how a history department can wisely plan for, and respond to, the rapid pace of technological change.

"The timely issues discussed here will certainly appeal to educators, so academic and large public libraries should add this to their education collections. The book would actually be a good addition to all collections."
-- Library Journal

"History.edu provides a wealth of information on the state of current practices in using the Internet, electronic mail, and the World Wide Web in today's history classroom. ... provides a valuable service in describing what is being done to incorporate technology into the classroom. Its footnotes are a virtual goldmine of usable information. History.edu is well worth the price."
-- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods

2001. 275 pp. Tables, figures, bibliographic references, appendices, index.
0-7656-0549-X HC $72.95
0-7656-0550-3 PB $29.95

The History Highway 3.0
A Guide to Internet Resources
Third Edition
Edited by Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University, and Scott A. Merriman, University of Kentucky

The new, redesigned and thoroughly updated edition of The History Highway guides users to the astonishing amount of historical information available on the Internet. It features more entries on non-U.S. history than ever before, and the pre-packaged CD-ROM includes the entire contents as PDF files with live links, so that users can put the disk into their computers, go on line, and click directly into the sites.

For use in college courses, three special editions are available with their own CD-ROMs offering specific coverage of world history, U.S. history, or European history, along with basic information about Internet research that is included with all four versions. Covering thousands of sites, and designed for ease of use and maximum flexibility, The History Highway 3.0 is an indispensable tool for historical research in the twenty-first century, no matter what the area or level of interest.

"The serious scholar, the history buff, and anyone with a computer and a love of the subject should have this book."
-- Library Journal

"Now in a revised, expanded, completely updated, and highly recommended third edition, The History Highway 3.0 is an immense, comprehensive, superbly presented reference filled from cover to cover with a wealth of information for some 3,000 websites focused on the history of every part of the globe, and every era of recorded civilization. ... overall an invaluable reference."
-- Library Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review

"Wow! What a book! Anyone interested in history, professional historians and researchers, and librarians will most definitely want to add this wonderful tool to their collection of Internet research aids. ... Without a doubt, this is one book you will find yourself using over and over, especially if you want a guide to quality web sites related to your historical interests. ... With the third edition of this unparalleled reference, the M.E. Sharpe publishing company certainly knocks it out of the park this time. In this marvelous, well organized reference that focuses on Internet history sites, we have in one book the most abundant, amazing collection of web sites on history you could ever imagine."
-- Golden Triangle PC Club

"This reference would be an asset to anyone doing historical research, and is highly recommended."
-- American Reference Books Annual

2002. 702 pp. Index.
0-7656-0903-7 HC $89.95
0-7656-0904-5 PB $39.95

The European History Highway
A Guide to Internet Resources
Edited by Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University, and Scott A. Merriman, University of Kentucky

Complete with a CD-ROM, this specialty volume derived from The History Highway 3.0 guides users to the incredible amount of information on European history available on the Internet. It covers literally hundreds of sites, with selected sites designated "Editor's Choice." The volume includes helpful information about using the Internet and evaluating information in an on-line environment, and the accompanying CD-ROM provides live links to sites.

"A useful resource for history enthusiasts, this book provides links to and information about hundreds of Web sites selected and evaluated by historians and librarians. ... Highly recommended." --- Choice

2002. 288 pp. Index.
0-7656-0905-3 PB $23.95

The U.S. History Highway
A Guide to Internet Resources
Edited by Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University, and Scott A. Merriman, University of Kentucky

Complete with a CD-ROM, this specialty volume derived from The History Highway 3.0 guides users to the incredible amount of information on U.S. history available on the Internet. It covers literally hundreds of sites, with selected sites designated "Editor's Choice." The volume provides helpful information about using the Internet and evaluating information in an on-line environment, and the accompanying CD-ROM provides live links to all sites.

"The U.S. History Highway is a superb answer to the troubling challenge of connecting our students to the best of the increasingly useful resources on the Internet. For students wandering aimlessly through the Internet jungle, Professors Trinkle and Merriman mark trails in ways that classroom teachers will applaud."
-- James H. Madison, Indiana University

2002. 368 pp. Index.
0-7656-0907-X PB $24.95

The World History Highway
A Guide to Internet Resources
Edited by Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University, and Scott A. Merriman, University of Kentucky

Complete with a CD-ROM, this specialty volume derived from The History Highway 3.0 guides users to the incredible amount of information on world history available on the Internet. It covers literally hundreds of sites, with selected sites designated "Editor's Choice." The volume includes helpful information about using the Internet and evaluating information in an on-line environment, and the accompanying CD-ROM provides live links to all sites.

2002. 520 pp. Index.
0-7656-0906-1 PB $29.95

Teaching History in the Digital Classroom
D. Antonio Cantu, Ball State University, and Wilson J. Warren, Western Michigan University

This book is a must for middle and high school social studies teachers who need help for incorporating digital technology and the Internet into their instruction. While many methods texts include an add-on chapter on teaching with technology, this work integrates the use of technology into every phase of the social studies curriculum. Filled with decision-making scenarios and reflective questions that help bring the material to life, it covers the development of teaching technologies and lesson plans, and includes actual instructional models in history and social studies. Throughout the book the authors provide practical examples, worksheets, graphic organizers, suggested activities, as well as methods for assessing and evaluating student performance.

Series: History, Humanities, and New Technology
2003. 376 pp. Tables, worksheets, bibliography, index.
0-7656-0992-4 HC $68.95
0-7656-0993-2 PB $26.95

Computers, Visualization, and History
How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past
David J. Staley, Heidelberg College, Ohio

For hundreds of years, historians have used prose and narrative to convey history. This is about to change thanks to new technology, digital scholarship, and computerized "visualization." Text itself has inherent limitations: the very use of words – their meaning and the connections among them -- shapes and restricts how historians think and communicate ideas. The rise of the computer is radically altering how human beings receive and process information. Digital environments and virtual reality are adding a third dimension to communication and creating a new visual language.

This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines this entire revolutionary phenomenon and how historians will utilize the new medium of computers and the new language of visualization to transform our understanding of history. Drawing on familiar graphic models -- maps, flow charts, museum displays, films -- the author shows how images can often convey ideas and information more efficiently and accurately than words. With emerging digital technology, these images will become more sophisticated, manipulable, and multidimensional, and provide historians with new tools and environments to construct historical narratives. Just as the transition from prehistoric cave paintings to the spread of literacy changed how people think and process information, so has -- and will -- the computer. Moving beyond the traditional book based on linear narrative, digital scholarship based on visualization and hypertext will offer multiple perspectives, dimensions, and experiences that transform how historians work and how people imagine and learn about history.

"This is one of the most clear-sighted and engaging statements ever written on the digital future of history. Offering a balanced and yet passionate analysis, Staley's book challenges historians to think in new ways."
-- Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia

"In this provocative work, David Staley asks historians to reflect upon a domain of practice that most take for granted: the conventions they use to represent the past. Staley has done scholars an immense service by pressing them to face the larger significance of the computer: that it is leading to visual forms of representation and narration. For the author, this is an opportunity to be seized, a chance to enter an expressive universe filled with 'thick depictions' and 'digital charticles.' Staley's work will force historians to think deeply and differently about their discipline. We are in his debt for his insistence that we do so."
-- John Bonnett, Ph. D., National Research Council of Canada

"Staley has greatly expanded the conceptual horizon ... for research and teaching about the complex economic, political, and cultural interactions of world history."
-- J. B. Owens, Idaho State University

"... a provocative work that calls for historians to recognize the potential of computers to alter our view of history. ... Computers, Visualization, and History belongs in every university library. It should also be read by every historian who is concerned about the future of history in the age of the computer."
-- History: Reviews of New Books

Series: History, Humanities, and New Technology
2003. 190 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index.
0-7656-1094-9 HC $56.95
0-7656-1095-7 PB $22.95

Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process
Edited by Deborah Lines Andersen, State University of New York, Albany

     To receive tenure, college and university professors have long been required to write scholarly monographs or articles, engage in serious research, and teach effectively. In recent years, however, the emergence of digital scholarship has revolutionized – and complicated -- the picture in unexpected ways as new electronic media have enabled academics to communicate scholarly material in innovative formats such as websites, PowerPoint presentations, CD-ROMs, and virtual reality "tours." Despite this growing output of sophisticated digital scholarship, there has been little attempt to set standards, define basic issues and concepts, or integrate electronic scholarship into the tenure debate.

      This collection of cutting-edge articles marks the first effort to evaluate the place of digital scholarship in the tenure, promotion, and review process. As a primer aimed at scholars, faculty members, and department chairs in the humanities, social sciences, and other fields, as well as deans, provosts, and university administrators, this collection examines the evolution of nontraditional scholarship, analyzes the various formats, and suggests guidelines for assessment on a scholarly level. It also examines the impact of digital scholarship in the classroom and academy and explores new directions for the future. This book will help shape policy in the murky world of tenure review and become a point of reference for scholars and administrators everywhere.

"Few topics are more important for the future of teaching than the subject of this book. The essays offered here explore the challenges presented by new technologies and offer insights that will be useful to faculty and administrators alike."
-- Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia

"Andersen's Digital Scholarship is a useful and quite interesting collection on the promise and perils of the use of informational technology in publishing scholarship. The essays range from discussions of technical problems of production to those of intellectual property and archiving, but the stress is on what it will take to get digital scholarship fairly evaluated and rewarded in academe. It is not that the digital scholarly age is coming. It is here. But the academy has not known how to deal with the new scholars and the new scholarship, especially in the humanities. Andersen's book is an important first step in clarifying what can and should be done."
- Stanley N. Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University

Series: History, Humanities, and New Technology
2003. 288 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index.
0-7656-1113-9 HC $64.95
0-7656-1114-7 PB $24.95