Selected Publications

We call our approach a documentary archaeology because it is wholly aligned with the intellectual goals, general methodologies, and objects of study characteristic of the discipline of archaeology. The only difference is that DALME does not rely, for its...

Concentration camps were much more than a corollary to National Socialism: they represented the most fully articulated manifestation of its ideology. From the very beginning, they formed the backbone of the Third Reich’s repressive apparatus and, through...

Pendant la dernière décennie du XIXe siècle, l’idée d’une science de la société fondée sur une approche positiviste commençait à prendre forme. Le but en était de construire une méthodologie pouvant réduire les phénomènes sociaux humains en...

This presentation showcases the system being employed by the DALME project to transform household inventories in European archives into computer actionable data available online. This consists of a four-step workflow that relies on sophisticated digital...

In the past few decades, the efforts of museums and other cultural institutions to digitize and make their collections accessible online have made massive amounts of information about artifacts available to the general public and researchers alike. From...

The “Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe” (DALME) is a publicly accessible database of material culture based on the textual sources from later medieval Europe. The goal of the project is to increase our understanding of Europe’s material...

This presentation articulates the basics of a methodology that allows material culture described in textual sources to be approached as one would museum or archaeological objects. Using advanced digital tools, this methodology enables researchers to...

Rather than focusing on single assignments, this talk presents an example of the entire assignment structure of a course been made digital without adding a significant training component to the workload of the students taking the class. The course in...

One truism about World War I is the incompetence of German propaganda in the United States. The classic stories feature German officials forgetting briefcases with secret documents on the New York subway and ham-fistedly delivering speeches about German...

This presentation showcases three state-of-the-art digital classrooms now available in the Department of History. Three existing classrooms were completely rebuilt as flexible, technology-rich learning spaces, following the principle of thoughtful...

Archaeological excavation is by nature a destructive process, because to investigate earlier underlying material one must first remove the later overlying evidence. It is therefore critical that each discovery is accurately documented before it is removed...