Digital Note-taking in the History Classroom

One of the projects I’ve been most excited about this semester revolves around an effort to teach history students how to take notes using an online database. The central point of my own digi…

February 6, 2017 · 3 min · John Stewart

Open Notes for Deep Maps

For the last couple of years, I have been working with my colleague John Perkins on building a database called Situating Chemistry. With this database we have been collecting information about the …

June 9, 2016 · 6 min · John Stewart

Transcribing Joseph Black’s Chemistry Lectures

Joseph Black (1728-1799) was one of the best known and most influential chemists during the second half of the eighteenth century. Black’s correspondence, recently published by Jean Jones an…

August 4, 2014 · 5 min · John Stewart