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Commonwealth
2020 Lecture Series: Engaging the Mind
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William
G. Thomas III
Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History
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The
Promise of Digital History: A Civil War Case Study
Technology
seems to advance almost daily, but can it really make a difference?
The answer is a resounding yes, especially for historians, who
are just beginning to glimpse the promise of digital history.
William G. Thomas III, director of the Virginia Center for Digital
History, is co-authoring a forthcoming scholarly article for the
American Historical Association that creates a model for electronic
scholarship in the field of history. Drawing on the large digital
archive of the Valley of the Shadow Project, Thomas will explore
the events leading up to Lincoln's election and the secession
of the Southern states, illustrating the ways in which computing
technologies allow for a level of analysis and connection that
would not otherwise be possible.
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William
G. Thomas III is the director of the Virginia Center for Digital
History and research assistant professor of history at the University
of Virginia. The author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business,
Law, and Power in the New South, Thomas is also the co-author and
assistant producer of The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History
Since the Civil War, a documentary series for public television
on the history of Virginia. As director of VCDH, Thomas works with
a team of graduate and undergraduate staff to develop digital history
projects, including the award-winning Valley of the Shadow project,
which received the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute
at Gettysburg College, in recognition of the project's scholarly
significance. Thomas received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University
of Virginia.
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