Beyond the Valley of the Shadow: Taking Stock of the Virginia Center for Digital History

The Virginia Center for Digital History is one of the leading programs for online scholarship in America. In an interview with Will Thomas, the center\u27s director, the authors of this article investigate the many opportunities and challenges of creating electronic scholarship in a university setting. Topics include a discussion of the innovations currently under development at the VCDH, the curriculum in digital history at the University of Virginia, and the place of online scholarship in the academy\u27s tenure and promotion process

Remembrance of Things Past: Service Learning Opportunities in U.S. History

The Alliance for Community Engagement Program is a yearlong series of workshops and meetings directed at developing and teaching a service learning class. This involves serving the community in a way that achieves goals and objectives, while providing students with a unique experience to learn, serve, and teach as they examine society at a primary level. Nystrom describes the process of adding a service learning component to one college class-- History 3332, US Social and Cultural History from 1865 to the Present --and the interviews students conducted for this class

Primary Source Reader for World History, Volume I: To 1500

Sharing a thoughtful collection of important primary source documents essential to world history, PRIMARY SOURCE READER FOR WORLD HISTORY is an affordable supplement for students and a valuable complement to any world history or world civilization class. More than 50 percent of the primary source documents that comprise this new two-volume reader are non-Western so as to give students a broad perspective on the history of the world. The primary source readings are divided by eras and organized according to principal themes such as religion, law and government, and everyday life. Each group of readings has a section describing the significance of subsequent readings and how those readings interrelate. Individual readings include a head note and various study questions intended to guide student reading and understanding. Brief and inexpensive, this reader is available to package with any of our world history texts