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Simone Lässig, ed.

Digital History

Special Issue, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 47.1 (2021)

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Contents

Simone Lässig, “Digital History: Challenges and Opportunities for the Profession”

Michael Goebel, "Ghostly Helpmate: Digitization and Global History”

Till Grallert, “Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History”

Habbo Knoch, “Das KZ als virtuelle Wirklichkeit: Digitale Raumbilder des Holocaust und die Grenzen ihrer Wahrheit”

Torsten Hiltmann, Jan Keupp, Melanie Althage and Philipp Schneider, “Digital Methods in Practice: The Epistemological Implications of Applying Text Re-Use Analysis to the Bloody Accounts of the Conquest of Jerusalem (1099)”

Forum

Svenja Goltermann and Philipp Sarasin, “Das Onlinemagazin Geschichte der Gegenwart: Konzept und Bilanz nach fünf Jahren”

Mark R. Stoneman and Kerstin von der Krone, “Blogging Histories of Knowledge in Washington, D.C.”

Frédéric Clavert, “History in the Era of Massive Data: Online Social Media as Primary Sources for Historians”