Over the last couple of weeks I have been starting to work on my project more and more.  For the most part now I have been trying to just get everything squared away and get my project planned out.  As I move on farther and farther in the project I am starting to see that one of the most time consuming things to do is to collect the actual data from the years I have chosen to look at.  There are a lot of names on each census and each one I have to look at the race of the...

Digit history is an approach to examining and representing the past that works with the new communication technologies of the computer, the internet network, and software systems.  To me digital history is the future of the history profession and if it is ignored, it is a waste of resources that can help the profession move into the future.  Many times I have made jokes about how the books that I have to buy for school are cheap because they have been around for so many years because of my major.  The idea of taking these sources or pictures of primary...