Ashley Dimino

Prompt: Digital resources and production–what is the utility of digital tools (used in sources and research, presentation and communication, analysis, etc) and mediums (products) for historians? For other professionals? Digital resources and production can be valuable resources for a variety of uses from research and analysis to presentation. Tools such as digital scanners like the…

Prompt: What do these more recent fields (women’s/gender, social and cultural, ethnohistory, environmental history) offer to the study of history as a whole? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you feel about them personally?             The more recent fields of history like gender, social and cultural, ethnohistory, and environmental history offer a greater…

Prompt: Traditional fields–do you find more “traditional” historiographical fields (military, political/diplomatic, economic) appealing, and why/why not? What are their strengths/weaknesses? Why do you think historians have expanded, complicated, challenged these genres, like they did in rethinking their approach to Colonial America?             I currently don’t have a strong preference for a traditional field, although I…

Prompt: Parkman and Jennings in historical context–what contemporary events/developments shaped their approach to historical thinking and writing? How/why might Anderson be different? With every historian, it is important to remember the time in which they are writing. Often historical context offers insight into the motivations of historians and their biases. In the case of Francis…

Prompt: Professionalization of history–how are popular and academic histories different, and why are those differences significant? Why don’t they always align? Popular history is history directed more at the general public. It is more oriented at “telling the story” of a nation, people, etc. without too much focus on analysis, tension, and debate. This form…