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Mark Anthony Neal talks with Howard Rambsy II and Jessica Marie Johnson about the state of black studies and digital humanities. The professionals discuss the different ways digital humanities can help expand and make black studies more accessible, and how the digital humanities can strengthen the study of race and black studies.

Digital Humanities Now is a website that showcases the scholarship and news in the world of digital humanities. The website's mission statement says that they hope to accomplish that "through a process of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review." Here, people can come and view what is happening in the field of digital humanities and get caught up on current events.

This link takes you to the Digital Humanities certificate and some department information for Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The website offers information for different job offerings, blog posts, and classes offered in the field at Texas A&M. The website looks to be mostly run by the faculty for the department at Texas A&M.

This link leads to Marylhurst University Online Digital Humanities Degree. I thought this was worth noting because it is actually an English and Digital Humanities degree that is being offered. I've looked at a few local colleges near our Texas A&M, and very few universities offer Digital Humanities as a main degree and not a minor or extra field of study. This is worth looking into because the universities need to start offering this degree since it is making so many changes to the way we view the humanities.

This website, arts-humanities.net, aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing: information on projects creating and using digital content, tools and methods to answer research questions, information on tools and methods for creating and using digital resources, a listing of expert centers and individual researchers, a library documenting lessons learned through case studies, briefing papers, and a bibliography. The website encourages people to become members and to contribute.

This article discusses The University of Canterbury (UC) and its brand new QuakeStudies digital archive to document the Canterbury earthquakes by collecting reports, documents, stories, photos and film. According to the website, the launch is "the culmination of a year's work by a project team from the UC College of Arts Digital Humanities department. The breadth of the content sought for the QuakeStudies archive is unprecedented, and will become a significant record of these major historical events."

This website called Humanist is an "international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities." The goal of this website is to create a forum where people can log on and discuss any issues with the digital humanities and share thoughts and ideas. Humanist is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

This article, titled Humanities in the Digital Age by Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III, addresses the hard times that have fallen upon higher education. One solution and innovative way to combat these financial cuts, the writers claim, is to make a movement into the digital humanities in higher education. The article continues on to highlight the best parts of digital humanities and how it can be a huge help to struggling universities both public and private.

This article focuses on the limitations of the traditional method of studying literature. David Smith, assistant professor of computational social science in the College of Computer and Information Science, and Ryan Cordell, assistant professor of English and digital humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University hope to mend the gaps and limitations to the traditional method by encouaging a digitial humanities project for their school.

This short article is about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's initiative for digital humanities supported by the Center for Digital Research of the Humanities. This new push for digital humanities has opened many new positions for scholarly pursuit and research at the school, which helps to open jobs and boost the economy.

This news article highlights the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington's new initiative for facilitating research and education in the digital humanities. The initiative revolves around The Catapult Center, directed by William R. Newman, Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. This center, according to the article, "will bring together a network of scholars from IU and the outside world in the rapidly expanding fields of digital editing, computational analysis of texts and material analysis of textual collections."

Zotero forums is a part of Zotero's website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

This is a page of information on Claire Warwick, who is a professor of digital humanities and head of the department of information studies at University College London. Warwick's main research interests are the uses of digital resources in humanities and cultural heritage, reading in physical and digital environments, and the use of social networking in research. Warwick opened the event Annual Research Programme, an event free and open to the public.

This article contains three main reasons why Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) should have Digital Humanities Projects. The three main reasons listed in this article are that Universities without Digital Humanity Centers (or cultures) can share resources, some of the research is bound to be cool, and humanities research builds connections. Each assertion is backed up with some research from Digital Humanities projects and is a very persuasive argument for the digital humanities programs and research.

This news article outlines the ideas of Tri-Co professors who are setting out to change the way that the world and general public views the humanities. To do so, they have set up a new initiative, founded by Bryn Mawr English Professor Katherine Rowe in 2010, called the Tri-Co Digital Humanities (TCDH). TCDH will support independent fellowships and give grants to students, faculty, and staff for humanities-based inquiry and using new technology.

This post focuses on the group Weigle Information Commons (WIC) and their thoughts and ideas after attending a Digital Humanities event titles "Libraries, Labs, and Classrooms: Locating the Digital Humanitites." The WIC fit into the categories discussed and expanded on the ideas presented at the event by asking themselves, "how can WIC promote DH projects among our students and faculty and provide the resources to make such studies come to life?" The WIC then outlines some ideas and projects they have to promote "digital publics" through digital humanities work.

This article discusses the agenda for the fifth annual Humanities Week at the University of Arizona. The college puts this week on to showcase what the professors and researchers do with digital humanities.

This online website is a guide that serves as an introduction to the the field of Digital Humanities. On this website hosted by the University of Delaware, there are plenty of resources and links for "topics and discussions about defining and describing DH, tools for projects, and links to the DH community such as blogs, open access journals, and conferences and events."

This website, ThinkingCulture, aims to exercise the cultural imagination. Figure/Ground conducts a series of interviews for the website, continued here with Miriam Posner. Miriam Posner teaches Digital Humanities at UCLA. The interview with Posner focuses on the her path into her academic post. Posner explains her struggles with tenure and her early career in academics. The interview continues on to discuss Posner's teaching, digital humanities work and her writing plans.

This news article by Casey Gould for Campus Times of the University of Rochester addresses the Presidential Symposium and their meeting to discuss what to do with and about the humanities in higher education. The panel discussed what to do with the humanities to continue to make it relevant in times where many are claiming that it isn't. The discussion of digitizing the humanities came up to some agreement and disagreement.