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  1. Feb 2021
    1. syllabi

      Here is, I think, an interesting and recent addition to the types of history syllabi available online: not just those for college classes, but ones created by and shared among community (I often see them in anti-racism contexts for example). As an example --

      https://www.americangirlspod.com/addy-add-on-the-syllabus

      Public historians Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney organized a crowd sourced syllabus to provide greater historical context to the Addy books in the American Girl series. This project came about as a result of their podcast which provides entertaining commentary and historical context to the AG books, and around which they've created a history minded community.

      This community-built and community-referenced syllabus, easily accessible on Google Docs, seems to add a new dimension to history syllabi available/created online.

    1. It respectfully resists the notion that scholarship speaks outside of time, space, and the physicality of the human body.  It is actively engaged in  the task of creating an audience-–even a mass audience--for humanistic learning.

      This reminds me of the messiness of public/digital history taking place on social media. Earlier commentators on this thread were speaking about the possibility of a third wave of digital history, or if the stated goals of this second wave have been achieved -- I think in some ways we can see this hoped for expansiveness in the current way people use history online.