{"id":435,"date":"2009-09-30T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-09-30T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:24:07","slug":"lincolns-future-is-digital-deal-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/09\/30\/lincolns-future-is-digital-deal-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#39;s Future Is Digital &#8211;Deal With It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month the Journal of American History published a <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/\">special issue<\/a> on Abraham Lincoln where I contributed an <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/contents\/pinsker.html\">essay<\/a> which claimed that the future of Lincoln studies lies mainly in digital work &#8211;both in new, ambitious research projects and also in innovative forms of web-based presentation.\u00a0 Okay, so I realize this claim seems more than a little self-serving since I&#8217;m a Lincoln scholar who also happens to be focused on various <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\">digital projects<\/a>, but I do sincerely believe that this is the future and will stand by the claim.\u00a0 The JAH provided a roundtable forum for responses by leading scholars such as <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/contents\/ayers.html\">Edward Ayers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/contents\/clinton.html\">Catherine Clinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/contents\/holt.html\">Michael Holt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/contents\/neely.html\">Mark Neely<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/contents\/wilson.html\">Douglas Wilson<\/a>.\u00a0 The exchange was lively (i.e. some of these guys actually disagreed with me) but it&#8217;s still just the beginning.\u00a0 I hope some of you will not only read the article and the roundtable, but also will check out the accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/media\/index.html\">websit<\/a>e and then will offer your own comments &#8211;positive or negative. \u00a0 The website features all kinds of cutting-edge research tools, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/media\/pinsker\/documents_artifacts\/hypergraph.html\">hypergraph<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/media\/pinsker\/documents_artifacts\/timemap.html\">timemap<\/a>, both built by Rafael Alvarado (University of Virginia) as well as a\u00a0 bibliography of hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/media\/pinsker\/resources\/recollections.html\">full-text recollections<\/a> about Lincoln and a <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/media\/pinsker\/documents_artifacts\/word_cloud.html\">clickable word cloud<\/a> of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.\u00a0 There are also examples of new forms of digital presentation, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofamericanhistory.org\/projects\/lincoln\/media\/pinsker\/scholarship\/essay.html\">interactive essay<\/a> format that we developed here at House Divided (courtesy of Russell Toris, Class of 2011) of which I am particularly eager to hear feedback.\u00a0 The point of all this work is to demonstrate that digital technology offers new ways to think about old topics.\u00a0 At least that&#8217;s what I hope people will come to realize and support.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m willing to listen to skeptics &#8230; 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