Stephen Robertson
@srober30.bsky.social
Professor of History at George Mason University; co-creator of Digital Harlem; author of Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, https://harlemindisorder.org;
https://drstephenrobertson.com
https://drstephenrobertson.com
To come, comparisons of Pinkerton undercover investigations of murders, burglaries, robberies, and thefts...to be presented in our panel on New Histories of Undercover Investigation at the Organization of American Historians conference in April 2026: www.oah.org/conferences/...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
To come, comparisons of Pinkerton undercover investigations of murders, burglaries, robberies, and thefts...to be presented in our panel on New Histories of Undercover Investigation at the Organization of American Historians conference in April 2026: www.oah.org/conferences/...
No AI, but my “Properties of Digital History” (2022) is an overview of developments in what has been done - and is open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
THE PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL HISTORY
This article offers a definition of digital history that focuses on the core affordances of the personal computer and the process by which those properties come to be exploited. I begin by outlining ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
No AI, but my “Properties of Digital History” (2022) is an overview of developments in what has been done - and is open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I'd been looking forward to the digital version of the book - is that still coming?
May 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'd been looking forward to the digital version of the book - is that still coming?
It’s a solution but the “neatest” solution would be a digital monograph which could incorporate the data. These are beginning to appear for just this reason, that print formats no longer fit our research
March 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It’s a solution but the “neatest” solution would be a digital monograph which could incorporate the data. These are beginning to appear for just this reason, that print formats no longer fit our research
I just updated the info on this option: historyarthistory.gmu.edu/graduate/phd...
Digital Dissertations
Traditionally, a text-based narrative dissertation has served as the signature capstone element of the doctoral research degree in history....
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November 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
I just updated the info on this option: historyarthistory.gmu.edu/graduate/phd...
This is really useful. I’m trying to work out where LinkedIn fits in all this. I’ve never taken it seriously but various institutional activities have pushed me to be present there and it does seem active in some way?
November 17, 2024 at 3:48 PM
This is really useful. I’m trying to work out where LinkedIn fits in all this. I’ve never taken it seriously but various institutional activities have pushed me to be present there and it does seem active in some way?