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Sept. 4th, 2025
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Hello, everyone. I hope you are all getting settled into the Fall semester. First, I want to thank those of you who have introduced yourselves to the class in the ⁠introductions channel. It's great to hear about your interests. For those who have not had the opportunity to introduce themselves, please try to do so by next week. I know we are all busy organizing our lives as the semester commences, and sometimes these small items do get missed. I look forward to hearing from you. Second, I want to update you about some course logistics. I will be creating a video on how to install and navigate Obsidian in the coming days. When this video is completed, I will make an announcement.
Furthermore, if you need additional support, please reach out to me via the ⁠tech-help channel, email, or my virtual office hours. I will adjust the times for my office hours, and they are now 11 am - 1:30 pm EST. Next, my goal is to post a brief video about hypothes.is and other digital resources in the coming week. Please be patient as I navigate these objectives. I want to assure everyone that I want you to succeed in this course and that I will provide as much support and resources as possible. However, please remember that this is an asynchronous course, and I expect you to work through the material independently and collaboratively with your virtual classmates.
Lastly, regarding your weekly journals, I have not yet decided how you should submit them. However, I am leaning towards your Mixa site, where I will annotate with suggestions and advice via Hypothes.is. The purpose is for us to use the web to navigate the digital and to have constructive conversations through Hypothes.is app. IT is a powerful tool and I want you to be comfortable with it. For this to be effective, you must have your Obsidian vault, Mixa plugin and site, and hypothesis.is installed and running. If you are having trouble, please reach out to me. You need to publish your journal entry on the Mixa site for me to read and comment on it. Does this make sense? I will become more active on Discord in the following week once I get all my classes and students settled. Again, THANK YOU for registering and participating in this course. I am very excited to work with all of you. As I know, I have one student from a previous class here, and I hope he can attest that I am an easy-going, open professor who wants you to succeed.

Welcome

1. Course Description

2. Learning Outcomes

3. Course Schedule

4. Evaluation

5. Course Communications

6. Common Regulations

6. Contact the Professor

how the course tech is built; how the course came to be

7. Colophon

8. Reuse

Orientation and Digital Setup

Week 1

Personal Knowledge Management and Linked Thinking

Week 2

Thinking about the “Craft” of Digital History

Week 3

Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

Week 4

Consolidation & Check-In Week

Week 5

Digital Excavation

Week 6

Defining Data, 'Dark' Data, & Identifiers

Week 7

Fall Break

Week 8

Seeing the Past?

Week 9

Week 10

Authority and Positionality in Your Digital Research

Week 11

Publicly Crafting a Historical Argument

Week 12

Open-Access Notebook Workshop

Week 13

Exit Ticket

Week 14

1 Setting up your vault

2 Create your first note

3 Templater Plugiin

4 What Goes into a Note?

5 Properties

Hypothesis

The Simplest Online Memex Worfklow

How To Read An Academic Article

FAQ for Common Tech Issues

Where to Find help

Text Formatting

Introduction to your vault

index note

Atomic Note

Literature Note

Process Note

Weekly Journal

Topic Proposal

Weekly Work & Tasks

Consolidation Reflection

Open Access Notebook/Memex

Benchmarking Your Memex

Exit Ticket/Final Project

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History Transcript

2 Obsidian User Interface (UI) Guide

3 Templater and Hotkeys Setup

4 How to use PDF++

5 Canvas Core Plugin Introductory Tutorial

6 Hypothes.is and Annotating the Web

7 Omnisearch Plugin for Obsidian

8 How to Use Process Notes for Digital Research Projects in Obsidian

9 Properties, Identifiers and Data Management with Obsidian Core Plugin Bases

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History

2 Some Logistical Updates

3 Welcome to Week Two

4 What is Digital History?

5 Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

6 Week Four Exercise Example

7 Using Obsidian for Digital History Research and Note-Making

8 Reflection Feedback Update and Hypothes.is

9 Week Five Update

10 Consolidation Reflection Submission

11 Module Two Wrangling and Critiquing

12 Week 7 Update

13 Week 9 Welcome Back

1. Course Overview

Module 1 Contextualizing

Module 2 Wrangling & Critiquing

Module 3 Arguing & Communicating

2. Schedule

01  memex help

8. Course Files

3. Tutorials

4. Assessment

5. VideoTutorials

Crafting Digital History

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