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…
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Situating Chemistry: Creating a Database of 18th-c. Chemists
*This post is the first section of a talk I gave at the 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. In 1756, fifty-nine students attended William Cullen’s (1710…
Duplicating Drupal
One of my big ongoing projects is an online Drupal database for the History of Chemistry called Situating Chemistry. The database connects the sites where
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 …
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…