Computational Methods for Restorative Data Justice Introduction While “data” is often understood today in computational terms, as information coded and organized for interpretation with digital tools and algorithms, the term has a long history dating back to at least the seventeenth century. In its earliest uses, data is defined as a “given” and a basis […]

Recovering archival specters with digital historical methods How might historians use digital research methods to study archival specters – people who lived, breathed, and made their mark on history, but whose presence in the archives and extant documents remains limited, at best, if not altogether lost? A number of scholars have written cogently and movingly […]