My Recent LoC.gov posts- Hydra’s Open Source Approach: An Interview with Tom Cramer May 13, 2013
- Historicizing the Digital for Digital Preservation Education: An Interview with Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton May 6, 2013
- Understanding User Generated Tags for Digital Collections: An Interview with Jennifer Golbeck May 1, 2013
- Born Digital Archival Materials at NYPL: An Interview with Donald Mennerich April 22, 2013
- Challenges in the Curation of Time Based Media Art: An Interview with Michael Mansfield April 9, 2013
- Nominations Now Open for the 2013 NDSA Innovation Awards April 4, 2013
- The Metadata Games Crowdsourcing Toolset for Libraries & Archives: An Interview with Mary Flanagan April 3, 2013
- Quest for the Critical E-dition: An interview with Leonardo Flores March 20, 2013
- Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott March 4, 2013
- Born Digital Folklore and the Vernacular Web: An Interview with Robert Glenn Howard February 22, 2013
- My Recent Play the Past Posts
- The Future of the Civil War through Gaming: Morgan’s Raid Video Game February 7, 2013
- It’s All About Meaningful Decisions: Game Design Toward Nuanced Historical Interpretation and Complexity February 5, 2013
- What Does Simony Say? An Interview with Ian Bogost December 13, 2012
- The New Science: Playing the Scientific Revolution September 27, 2012
- “No no no, that’s not the way it happened. Shall I start again?” July 24, 2012
- Playing at Slavery: Modding Colonization for Authenticity May 24, 2012
- Jamestown Adventure: Less is More May 15, 2012
- Guns, Germs, and Horses: Cultural Exchange in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 13, 2012
- if (!isNative()){return false;}: De-People-ing Native Peoples in Sid Meier’s Colonization March 1, 2012
- Playing with World Religion: What Religion Means in Civ IV February 16, 2012
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Tag Archives: children’s books
Marie Curie on Ada Lovelace Day
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. From their website, ‘Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized. We want you to tell the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Uncategorized
Tagged AdaLovelaceDay09, children's books, Children's Literature, Curie, Gender, Science
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1934: A Better Time to Be A Girl Interested in Science?
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Nature Study was the cutting edge approach in American science education. Educational scholars claimed students should “study nature, not books” and education took on a much more practical bent. Some scholars have … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged children's books, Children's Literature, Firstpast, nature study, Science
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Suprises in Early Children’s Books About Evolution
From the Scopes to Dover Area School District teaching evolution continues to be a perennial sore spot in American education. More often than not textbooks are at the center of these controversies. There are several excellent studies of the history … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged children's books, Children's Literature, evolution, Science
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Another way to count the books
I asked a sociologist why there are more kids books about Curie than Einstein. He looked puzzled for a moment and then responded, “Of course! If your going to write a book about a scientist for girls you don’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education, History
Tagged children's books, Gender, race, Science
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Why Historians Need to Be More Interested With Children's Literature
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong. This picture from the 1976 children’s book The Value of Learning: The Story of Marie Curie depicts the resolute young Curie standing her ground … Continue reading
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Tagged children's books, Children's Literature, marie curie, Science, soviet
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Children's Books By The Numbers: Or Two Things I Learned From Franco Moretti
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of reading Franco Moretti’s Graphs Maps and Trees. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it as a truly compelling exploration of what individuals interested in the history of literature can … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools, Education, History
Tagged albert einstein, charles darwin, children's books, data, Franco Moretti, marie curie, Science, swivel, worldcat, zotero
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Curie and Einstein Go To School
These are two of my favorite pictures from my research on children’s books about Einstein and Curie. (You can click on them to see the bigger images). They are I think, the most visual example of my thesis’s argument and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged albert einstein, children's books, Gender, marie curie, Science
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