Pun intended, of course. I found a really cool piece of software that will, I believe, be very helpful in writing the dissertation. It’s a Mac application called Scrivener. I found it while reading up on an influential digital historian’s blog, William Turkel. I like it because it organizes the writing process in the way …
I spent the day researching grants and reading about how to properly put together a proposal. I also spent a bit of time plotting out my todo list for this semester, creating a checklist of tasks and when they are due. I made the list in my Google Calendar, so it’s not available to be …
Invariably, when I tell people about my dissertation topic, they reference a show they have seen recently about Nazi Tunnels. Usually they’re referencing this episode of Solving History with Olley Steeds on Discovery. http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/solving-history-nazi-treasure/ I thought it would be interesting to make a list of connections to the dissertation that I come across throughout this …
Finding resources doesn’t have to be rocket science, although it often feels like it! I’ve been working on applying for some funding. I thought it might be advantageous to gather all of the sources I found into one place. Here is a list of funding source I have found: http://www.acls.org/programs/comps/ http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=208&Itemid=101 http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=61 http://www.ces.columbia.edu/awards/awards.html http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/ …
Update: It appears that most people come to this page looking for how to properly attribute a blog post in their footnotes, not how to do footnotes in a blog post. 🙂 So, a different search shows how to do the former, while this post shows how to do the latter. Search tip, add the …
This here will be the digital home for my dissertation research and resources. Ideally I will be able to scan all of the documents I look at and post them here in an Omeka archive. There will be two software applications that run this site: WordPress and Omeka. The WordPress install will be a digital …