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Presidential Feelings
Using an LLM to measure executive vibes
May 18
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Jacob Forward
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Beyond Cherry-Picking: Scaling Historical Arguments
Why Historians Must Enter the Age of Big Claims
May 4
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Jo Guldi
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April 2026
Hooray! Post-Fordism Is Finally Here!
AI, Monopoly Capitalism, and Open-weight Models
Apr 29
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Louis Hyman
11
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On The Virtue of Small AI
Ollama and Hugging Face
Apr 27
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Louis Hyman
5
The Historian's Guide to Statistics
The ecological fallacy as cautionary tale for historical reasoning
Apr 24
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Christopher Phillips
2
3
Python for Reading
or why we don't need to be computer scientists to code
Apr 22
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Louis Hyman
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Nodes, Edges, and the Historian’s Craft: Knowledge Graphs as Research Notes
How moving from Word docs to network graphs transformed my research workflow and how LLMs made it possible.
Apr 16
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Jim Clifford
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On having faith in your students
Or, why I trust them to make the right choice about AI
Apr 15
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Louis Hyman
7
AI needs historians as much as historians need AI
Digital history did not fail in isolation—it failed just before the world discovered how much it needed it.
Apr 9
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Jo Guldi
6
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You Deserve The Cluster
The case for running your historical collections through research computing, and why it costs less than you think.
Apr 6
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Loren Moulds
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Agentic Coding for Humanists
Bottlenecks, Side Quests, and the Calculus of Historical Research
Apr 2
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Cameron Blevins
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March 2026
The Lost Promise of Digital History
And why computational history is now needed more than ever
Mar 30
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Jo Guldi
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