About Jason

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln currently beginning work on my dissertation. My field of study is the twentieth-century North American West and Great Plains, as well as political and cultural history, the history of technology, and digital history.

I am also the lead web editor of Digital History, a contributor to the Doing Digital History blog, and run my own blog on digital history with my colleague, Brent Rogers.

What Is Digital History?

The advent of digital technologies is changing and challenging the ways historians practice their craft. The way we collect, present, and store information has changed rapidly in the last twenty years. Digital history is several things: a methodology meant to aid the traditional art and practice of historians, the use of digital tools to gain insight into information that cannot be done with a legal pad and pen, allows historians to disseminate and present their information in new ways, and a means to reach wide audiences through digital technologies. The goal isn't cliometrics 2.0 or to augment the theory-driven social sciences, but to abide by the historian's commitment to complexity and nuance while utilizing digital technologies to aid that task.