Ben Schmidt

Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.

NOTE 8/23: I've written a more thoughtful version of this argument for the Atlantic. They're not the same, but if you only read one piece, ...

I periodically write about Google Books here, so I thought I'd point out something that I've noticed recently that should be concerning to a...

This is a blog post I've had sitting around in some form for a few years; I wanted to post it today because: 1) It's about peer review, a...

Note: a somewhat more complete and slightly less colloquial, but eminently more citeable, version of this work is in the Proceedings of the ...