Hey, #twitterstorians, it's National History Day season. Yesterday I got my first* contact from a student doing a @NationalHistory project. Let me say a few words about how we respond to the young people who approach professional historians for help this time of year. 1/18 *Excluding my 14 yo daughter, whose primary role is to ignore or ridicule my advice before quietly taking it a few days later. I still haven’t seen her perform her monologue about Sarah Bernhardt, but I expect I will. 2/18

Thinking about how to explain #publichistory and #digitalhistory scholarship to colleagues on academic #tenure and promotion committees, especially those who are used to sole-authored books as the gold standard #dh #digitalhumanities 1/15 The core of the work is familiar: conceptualization, research, and writing (even if the ultimate presentation is not in the form of prose). The work is original and interpretive, just like traditional monographic scholarship. 2/15