Thanks to the Internet, students in introductory American government courses now have more access to more research sources than ever before. Stephen Mihm writes at The New York Times:
For generations, biographers have used the same methods to conduct research: they
Thanks to the Internet, students in introductory American government courses now have more access to more research sources than ever before. Stephen Mihm writes at The New York Times:
For generations, biographers have used the same methods to conduct research: they waded through the paper trail left by their subject, piecing together a life from epistolary fragments. Based on what they found, they might troll through newspapers from specific dates in the hope of finding coverage of their subject. There were no new-fangled technologies that promised to transform their research, no way of harnessing machines to reveal new layers of historical truth.That’s all starting to change. Several campaigns to digitize newspapers — Readex’s “America's Historical Newspapers” available by subscription at research univer