A recent piece by Patricia Cohen of the New York Times profiling some current digital history projects:
Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: November 16, 2010
Digitally savvy scholars are exploring how technology can enhance understanding of the liberal arts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html
This is part of a series:
Humanities 2.0
The Liberal Arts Meet the Data Revolution
This is the first in a series of articles about how digital tools are changing scholarship in history, literature and the arts.
See also the NYT ArtsBeat Blog for a piece on “Digitally Mapping the Republic of Letters.”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/digitally-mapping-the-republic-of-letters/