Artificial intelligence is making history, literally. Machine learning tools are playing a key role
in crafting images and stories about the past in popular culture. AI has probably also already …

Ongoing digitization of primary sources and the proliferation of borndigital documents are
making it easier for historians to engage with vast amounts of research material. As a result …

We have all read the headlines heralding, often hyperbolically, the latest advances in text-
and image-based Artificial Intelligence (AI). What is perhaps most unique about these …

The authors of this paper present a case for a gamic mode of history that focuses on the
construction of the historical narrative via procedural rhetoric. The gamic mode of history …

Ancient languages preserve the cultures and histories of the past. However, their study is
fraught with difficulties, and experts must tackle a range of challenging text-based tasks, from …

Digital history has only rarely created interpretative or argumentative scholarship that
contributes back to disciplinary understandings of the past. The reasons for this are varied …

In recent years, mass digitization has opened up voluminous text corpora to human
interpretation. Full-text search lets historians now find new sources that can change their …

In the late 1960s and early 1970s historians seemed to think that their profession, the craft
and art of history itself, was on the brink of change. Everywhere one looked the signs were …

Has the digital revolution transformed how we write about the past? Have new technologies
changed our essential work-craft as scholars and the way in which we think, teach, author …

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new research now possible because
of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a …