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  • From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities 

    Ewing, E. Thomas; Randall, Katherine; Reznick, Jeffrey S. (2019-10)
    This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ...

  • Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed 

    Kyba, Christopher C.M.; Pritchard, Sara B.; Ekirch, A. Roger; Eldridge, Adam; Jechow, Andreas; Preiser, Christine; Kunz, Dieter; Henckel, Dietrich; Hölker, Franz; Barentine, John; Berge, Jørgen; Meier, Josiane; Gwiazdzinski, Luc; Spitschan, Manuel; Milan, Mirik; Bach, Susanne; Schroer, Sibylle; Straw, Will (MDPI, 2020-01-10)
    The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at ...

  • La Grippe or Russian Influenza: Mortality Statistics During the 1890 Epidemic in Indiana 

    Ewing, E. Thomas (Wiley, 2019-02-12)
    Background The Russian influenza, which began in late 1889, has long been recognized as a major global epidemic yet available statistical evidence for morbidity and mortality has not been fully examined using historical ...

  • The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive 

    Gitre, Edward J. K.; Luther, Kurt (National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018-07-31)
    With funding provided by an NEH Foundation HCRR grant, PW-253776, our team finished the first phase of The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive. The goal of this project is to create a free, public website to ...

  • Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History 

    Ewing, E. Thomas; Randall, Katherine (VT Publishing, 2018-12-11)
    This volume of original essays explores the power of network thinking and analysis for humanities research. Contributing authors are all scholars whose research focuses on a medical history topic—from the Black Death in ...

  • Historically Speaking, Summer 1999 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1999-08)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Spring 2000 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2000-03)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Spring 1999 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1999-03)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Fall 1998 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1998-09)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Fall 1999 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1999-10)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Summer 1998 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1998-07)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Fall 2014 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2014)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Fall 2013 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2013)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Fall 2012 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2012)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Spring 1998 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1998-03)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Winter 2009 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2009)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Winter 2011/2012 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2012)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Spring 2008 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2008)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Summer 2010 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 2010)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

  • Historically Speaking, Fall 1997 

    Unknown author (Virginia Tech, 1997-09)
    This newsletter chronicles the many activities in the History Department and the numerous accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni.

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