Readings

Digital History

• Burdick, Anne; Johanna Drucker; Peter Lunenfeld; Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp. "A Short Guide to the Digital Humanities." MIT Press, 2012.
• Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." The Atlantic. July, 1945. 
• Cohen. Dan. "Professors, Start Your Blogs." DanCohen.org. August 21, 2006. 
• Cohen, Daniel and Roy Rosenzweig. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 
• Dougherty, Jack and Kristen Nawrotzki ed. Writing History in the Digital Age. University of Michigan Press, 2012.
• "The Goggles." Transom.org. May 30, 2012.
• Gold, Matthew K. (ed). Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
• Krug, Steve. "How We Really Use the Web." in Don't Make Me Think. New Riders, 2014.
• Manovich, Lev. "Database as a Genre of New Media." AI and Society. 1998.
• "The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials."
• Townsend, Robert B. "How is New Media Reshaping the World of Historians." Perspectives on History. November 2010.
• Rizzo, Mary. "Every Tool is a Weapon: Why the Digital Humanities Movement Needs Public History." History @ Work. November 2, 2012.
• Stanford University. "Tooling Up for Digital Humanities."

Material Culture

• Adamson, Glenn. “The Case of the Missing Footstool: Reading the Absent Object” in Karen Harvey, ed., History and Material Culture: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Ames, Kenneth. “Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9 (1978): 19-46.
• Auslander, Leora. Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
• Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Hannah Arendt, ed., Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
• Baudrillard, Jean. “The Functional System, or Object Discourse,” in The System of Objects. London: Verso, 2005: 11-69.
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  Brown, Bill. “Commodity Nationalism and the Lost Object,” in Hasselstein, et al., eds, The Pathos of Authenticity: American Passions of the Real, 33-52. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2010.
• Carson, Cary. “Doing History with Material Culture,” in Ian Quimby, ed., Material Culture and the Study of American Life. New York: Norton, 1978, 41-64. 
• Carson, Cary. “Material Culture History: The Scholarship Nobody Knows” in American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field, 401-428. Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, 1997.
• Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten. New York: Anchor, 1996. 
• Elliott, Devon, Robert MacDougall, William J. Turkel, “New Old Things: Fabrication, Physical Computing, and Experiment in Historical Practice,” Canadian Journal of Communication 37, no.1 (April 2012): 121-128.
• Glassie, Henry. “Meaningful Things and Appropriate Myths: The Artifact’s Place in American Studies,” in Robert Blair St. George, ed., Material Life in America. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988, 63-92.
• Harvey, Karen, ed. History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources. New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Healy, Kay. “Lost and Found” Instillation runsOctober 2, 2014- October 2, 2015. 
• Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. “Objects of Ethnography,” in Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1991): 17-78.
• Kopytoff, Igor. “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as a Process,” in Arjun Appadurai, ed., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 
• Kwolek-Folland, Angel. “The Gendered Environment of the Corporate Workplace, 1880-1930,” in Katherine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames, eds. The Material Culture of Gender: The Gender of Material Culture, 157-179. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.
• Landsmark, Theodore C. "Comments on African American Contributions to American Material Life." Winterthur Portfolio 33, no. 4 (1998): 261-282.
• McDannell, Colleen. Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
• Martin, Ann Smart. “Suckey’s Looking Glass: African Americans as Consumers,” in Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia, 173-193. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2008.
• Miller, Daniel. “Theories of Things,” in Stuff. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010: 54-78.
• Mires, Charlene. Independence Hall in American Memory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
• Prown, Jonathan. "The Furniture of Thomas Day: A Reevaluation." Winterthur Portfolio 33, no. 4 (1998): 215-229.
• Radio Lab. “Things.” Season 12, Episode 8. 
• Reid, Debra A. "Furniture Exempt from Seizure: African-American Farm Families and Their Property in Texas, 1880s-1930s." Agricultural History 80, no. 3 (2006): 336-357.
• Roberts, Sam. “Object Lessons in History.” New YorkTimes. September 27, 2014. 
• Stallybrass, Peter. “Marx’s Coat,” in Patricia Spyer, ed., Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces. New York: Routledge, 1998. 
• This American Life. "House on Loon Lake."Episode 199. November 16, 2001. 
• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. “Furniture as Social History” in Luke Beckerdite and William N. Hosley, eds. American Furniture Hanover:University Press of New England, 1995, 35-64. 

Public History

• Chung, James et al., "Coming soon: The Future: The Shape of Museums to Come," Museum 88 (May/June 2009): 38-43.
• Fink, Leon. “When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause.” Journal of Social History Vol. 40, No. 1 (Autumn 2006), 119-145.
• Frisch, Michael. “Introduction.” A Shared Authority. SUNY Press, 1990.
• Glassberg, David. “Public History and the Study of Memory.” The Public Historian Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 1996), 7-23.
• Gordon, Tammy. Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Setting of Everyday Life. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2010.
• Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, “Arts, Culture, and Economic Prosperity in Greater Philadelphia.” 2011 Portfolio. 
• Hayden, Dolores. “I: Claiming Urban Landscapes as Public History.” The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. 1-78. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995.
• Horton, James Oliver & Lois E. Horton, ed. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 
• Hurley, Andrew. Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
• Kitch, Carolyn. Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 
• McKenna-Cress, Polly and Janet Kamien. Creating Exhibitions: Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences. Hoboken: Wiley, 2013.
• Meringolo, Denise. “Prologue: A New Types of Technician: In Search of the Culture of Pubic History,” in Museums, Monuments, and National Parks. University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. 
• Rosenzweig, Roy and David Thelen. The Presence of the Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
• Sommer, Barbara W. & Mary Kay Quinlan. The Oral History Manual. 2nd ed. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2009.
• Stanton, Cathy. The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
• Tyrell, Ian. “Public at the Creation: Place, Memory, and Historical Practice in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1907-1950” The Journal of American History Vol. 94, No. 1 (June 2007), 19-46.
• Whisnant, et al., Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (Part I).
• Yellis, Ken. “Fred Wilson, PTSD, and Me: Reflections on the History Wars.” Curator: The Museum Journal Vol. 52 (October 2009), 333-348.