To Find the Principles

"In fiction, the principles are given, to find
the facts: in history, the facts are given,
to find the principles; and the writer
who does not explain the phenomena
as well as state them performs
only one half of his office."

Thomas Babington Macaulay,
"History," Edinburgh Review, 1828

Showing posts with label New Media/Digital Humanities. Show all posts

Showing posts with label New Media/Digital Humanities. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Pardon Me! Another Thanksgiving Piece

The eternal question: what to write about for this year's Thanksgiving piece? I haven't systematically scanned the news yet, but s...

Saturday, August 18, 2012

History Channel Puts Western Massachusetts History on the Mobile App

A song of ascents: I make fun of History Channel For its Ancient Aliens crap, But credit where credit is due: I'm trying its Histo...

Friday, August 12, 2011

Walking the Walk and Tweeting the Talk (Digital Humanities and the New-Old World of the Book)

I recently and ever so gently chided the Jones Library for being not quite up to date in the digital domain ( 1 , 2 )—all benevolently a...

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

In yesterday's blogpost on the selection of a new Director for the Jones Library, I took the opportunity to note an irony: Although the...

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Update: New Director at the Jones Library (and some advice on new media needs)

August 10 As noted in last night's brief update, the Jones Library has a new Director. Scott Merzbach of the Gazette has now provi...

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