Studying History as It Unfolds, Part 2: Tooling Up the Historians

James W. Cortada

doi:10.1109/MAHC.2015.36

Studying History as It Unfolds, Part 2: Tooling Up the Historians

James W. Cortada

Charles Babbage Institute

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This article is the second in a two-part series exploring the development of the early history of information technologies, from the 1940s to the present. This article describes the evolving information infrastructure used by historians in support of their research on the history of computing and of the role of IT practitioners, computer executives, scientists, and universities in creating that support since the 1970s.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7155430
Pages (from-to)	48-59
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume	38
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2015.36
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

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Charles Babbage Institute
Erwin Tomash
SIGCIS
University of Minnesota
archival collections
computing
historians
historiography
history of computing
information technology

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