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This blog addresses the challenges with scholarly research that are faced when discussing 18th and 19th British women writers. One challenge is that how is it decided what information is being included in the archive and how accurate is it. Not all digital archives have equal access; this gives a disadvantage for people's research because they do not have access to all the information they need. She answers how to make digital humanities more accurate and how it can be used in a classroom through many different professors prospectives.

Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin blazed her own trail in the Harvard School of Astrology in the early 1900's. She, and a group of other women known as the "computers." They worked hard to make a name for themselves, and make a name they did. These women, in particular, were some of the first to blaze new trails at the university.

Although not always on topic, the #transformDH tumblr contains a large archive of numerous works within the field of digital humanities related to race and gender. Projects highlighted by the Tumblr include "Swag Diplomacy," a mapping project tracking "200 African American autobiographers who wrote international travel memoirs," and "BlackGirlsCode," a project working "to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the... field of technology." The archive also occasionally reblogs and communicates with other tumblrs.

The article by Rob Blades analyzes the role and value of computers from the perspective of a historian, particularly in relation to the shifting notion of agency and history. Much like movements in the field of History pertaining to the reintegration of marginalized groups, such as women or the working class, Blades argues that computers should be seen as having some measure of agency in our handling of them in research. He points to the number of programs coming close to matching Humans in the Turing Test, a test for determining "humanness," and delivers a counter argument to the claim that computers "dumb down" the population in general, and in particular historians who rely on them.

This website has been created which will serve to scholars in the United States that will provide free information that pertains to the history of women's education. The material off their website can be used for teaching, research, or other interests. They also have work that undergraduate students have compiled such as lesson plans and digital scrapbooks. On their website they also announce upcoming exhibitions and events that pertain to Digital Humanities and also essay contests.