DateTopicReading 1Reading 2Links for ClassAssignments Due
1/8/2019Course IntroductionBackground Knowledge Survey
1/10/2019FoundationsJames Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999), 253-301 Course Reader.Shawn Graham, et. al., Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope (2015), Preface & Chapter 1. BookVoyant Tools

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1/15/2019Structured DataSrinivasan, Ramesh. “Ethnomethodological Architectures: Information Systems Driven by Cultural and Community Visions.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 58, no. 5 (March 2007): 723–33. doi:10.1002/asi.20544. CCLE-Week 2Link to Spreadsheet
1/17/2019Foundations 2Bethel Saler, The Settlers’ Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), 1-82. Course ReaderIf time: Hypothes.isAnnotation for Saler reading.
1/22/2019Making ConnectionsMichael McDonnell, Masters of Empire (Hill & Wang, 2015), 272-329. Course ReaderSublime Text Editor 3 & RegEx Cheat Sheet from MIT (opens a PDF)
1/24/2019Data/Text CleaningGraham, et. al., Exploring Big Historical Data, Chapter 2. BookStructured Data
1/29/2019Word Frequencies & Good QuestionsRob Harper, Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Introduction & Chapters 4-5. Book
1/31/2019Basic Stats for Text AnalysisGraham, et. al., Exploring Big Historical Data, Chapter 3. BookStéfan Sinclair & Geoffrey Rockwell, “Now Analyze That!” Hermeneutica (2016).
2/5/2019Basic Stats for Text Analysis 2Harper, Unsettling the West, Chapter 6. Book
2/7/2019Basic Stats for Text Analysis 3Tim Hitchock and William J. Turkel, "The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1913: Text Mining for Evidence of Court Behavior," Law and History Review 34, no. 4 (November 2016), 929-955. CCLE-Week 5
2/12/2019Limits of Text Analysis(Podcast) Ben Franklin’s World Podcast on Dr. Alejandra Dubcovsky’s 2016 bookNancy Shoemaker, “An Alliance between Men: Gender Metaphors in Eighteenth-Century American Indian Diplomacy East of the Mississippi,” Ethnohistory 46, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 239-263. CCLE-Week 6Analysis of 1-2 research questions using at least 2 methods
2/14/2019Limits of Text Analysis 2Heidi Bohaker, “Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great Lakes,” in Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas, edited by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 99-140. Course ReaderMALLET & Lexos
2/19/2019Topic ModelingTed Underwood, “Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough”
2/21/2019Topic Modeling 2Robert K. Nelson and Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond, “Mining the Dispatch,” 2011.Robert K. Nelson, Of Monsters, Men -- and Topic ModelingAssignment Due Friday, February 22: Take-home Midterm
2/26/2019Named Entity Recognition
2/28/2019Basic Webpage DesignAnnotated Bibliography
3/5/2019Giving & Receiving Constructive FeedbackIn-Class Assignment: Presentation Peer Review
3/7/2019Advanced Topics: TBD
3/12/2019Polishing Final Projects
3/14/2019PresentationsFinal Project Presentation

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3/18/2019Final Individual Analysis (in lieu of a final exam)