Dave Lester’s Finding America

Following the recent indexing of Cliopatria’s History Blogroll, it’s worth offering a side-by-side comparison of two different approaches to academic blog directories. This follows several months of experimentation of approaching my goal to establish an American Studies blog directory as part of the Crossroads Project. The two fundamental differences between the directories I’ve seen [...]

If you’re not already familiar with it, explore Google’s new experimental search – it augments search results by visualizing them as a timeline or map. I’m interested to see how refined this tool becomes, potentially being an incredible place to start when beginning research. An example search they suggest is Thomas Jefferson [...]