Academic Spring: Access Revolution or Stumbling up the Stairs | Stillwater Historians

Rob Gee asks some timely questions about the enthusiasm for digital environmental history and other efforts to take academic publishing and communication in new directions.

So here we are at conference season and at the end of the spring semester, leaving me to wonder about the nature and potential impact of our collective zeal.  Are we , in fact, poised to overthrow some of the rusty conventions of academic life?  Are we at a crossroads where new technology, creative application, and insightful self-analysis drive a reconstitution of the modern university and what we come to know as the history discipline and its classroom?  Or is this just something we do every year, a recipe concocted from fatigue, frustration, and the momentary glimmer of hope and inspiration that a weekend’s immersion in great scholarship can create?

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