It’s Content Management Systems week in my intro to digital humanities course, which means that the only appropriate opener to today’s class is: “Archives…. Am I right??”

I know “A Century of Lawmaking” has been out of commission for a little while now, but I absolutely cannot stand the migration to congress.gov. It’s excruciating to search historical collections. I just want to browse the 1862 Congressional Globe 😢

The students in Museums, Monuments, and Memory this term identified alumni scrapbooks in Special Collections, researched the stories inside them, and produced podcasts on them! All in ten weeks. You can sample their work at scrapsoftime.knoxabolitionlab.org

I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining The University of Southern Mississippi as an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and History starting fall 2025! I’m very grateful for the opportunity to continue my work at the intersection of history and digital scholarship 💛

Celebrating #DouglassDay in the Abolition Lab at Knox today! We had a great time transcribing and tuning into the virtual programming! And of course, there were plenty of snacks 🎊🥳🎊

Another day, another Storymap JS tutorial #Abolitionlab

To my new followers in history departments: My contingent position at Minnesota State University wraps up this term. I’m actively on the job market for a full-time role, but in the meantime, I'm seeking an online teaching opportunity (synchronous/asynchronous) for the spring. www.johnlegg.org

Now that it’s official, I’m thrilled to announce that my first book _When the War Raged On: Montana Territory, Native Nations, and the Struggle over Reconstruction in the West_ is under contract with University of Nebraska Press!

Our spring classes start this Wednesday and I’ll be teaching HIST 181: Intro to Native history. I finally have my digital syllabus/class website together, and I greatly look forward to meeting the students! hist181.jenniferandrella.com

Heading to MSU for the in-person portion of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium! Looking forward to a productive weekend of learning and engaging with DH, and catching up with old friends and colleagues! #msudh #MSUGlobalDH

Back in LEADR at MSU, we had a very analog way of scheduling lab hours: everyone had a pile of squares and would place them in available time slots. I’ve passed on this method to the Abolition Lab and, no joke, we solve the scheduling dilemma in 5 minutes every time. 10/10 would recommend.

It’s amazing to see all that we’ve accomplished in the Abolition Lab at Knox as another term wraps up. We now have weekly lab hours and a full website. I firmly believe that this lab will be a model for the future of digital humanities at liberal arts colleges 💜 knoxabolitionlab.org

I had a wonderful time presenting at the Western History Association in Los Angeles last week. Our roundtable focused on new directions in digital Western history, and I got to share some recent developments on Mapping the Upper Missouri: www.mappingtheuppermissouri.com/map.html #WHA2023

On September 22, 2023, I married my best friend. Today we received our wedding photos and I’m going to cherish them forever ❤️ @legg.bsky.social

This week’s developments in and around the lab: some lovely banners, soundproofing foam in the recording studio, and a light box! We’re also working with four classes on DH projects this term. So excited for our small but growing digital humanities community on campus. #DHatKnox

Hello 👋🏻 I’m Jen, currently a postdoctoral fellow in digital Humanities at Knox College. In 2022, I graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Michigan State. My current book project explores how the politics and policies of Reconstruction intersected with territorial expansion in the West