About H301

Can modern technology help us explore and better understand history?

The history department’s Digital History undergraduate courses (H301 and J300) are designed to give students the opportunity to uncover the history of Indiana and Indiana University–Bloomington with digital tools like text mining, network analysis, spatial history and makerspace technology.

The projects here are the work of 12 students whose work over the course of the Spring 2017 semester explored IUB’s rich archival collection, both physical and digital, and examined the promise and limitations of big-data analysis in history research. Each project tackles the historical trends around a single object on campus and helps us see how IU, its people, and its work fit into, and are changed by, the world around us.