Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article describes the development of the Lincoln/Net web site at Northern Illinois University Libraries. It argues that to date academic historians have largely used digital technology and the web to advance research, while ignoring their potential for reaching a large public. As a digital library project that also presents original interpretive works discussing the context in which primary source materials were created, Lincoln/Net can serve as an example of an important new form of public history.

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Comments

open-source publication

Original Citation

Doing Public History 1 (2008)

Department

University Libraries

Legacy Department

Other

Language

eng

Publisher

Doing Public History

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