Digital History comprehensive exams reading list, prepared in June 2015 for Eun Seo Jo, Stanford University.

Review of “Follow the Money: A Spatial History of In-Lieu Programs for Western Federal Lands.” Stanford University, Jay Taylor, Erik Steiner, Krista Fryauff, Celena Allen, Alex Sherman, and Zephyr Frank. Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 July 2018, Pages 344–345, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/why049.

This chapter describes the creation of “America’s Public Bible,” an interactive digital work of scholarship that identifies quotations to the Bible in U.S. newspapers. The chapter explains how the project works from a computational perspective and, more importantly, how those computational methods connect to research questions in American…[Read more]

In 1963, details of the membership of congregations in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United Kingdom and Ireland took place and was published in The Construction Era. Individual congregations and their membership, which is assumed to be total membership, was published alongside a chart indicating how far it had progressed…[Read more]

This spreadsheet contains the details of persons recorded as members in the Swindon congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). In total, 47 people are identified. Information including parents details, baptismal dates, and so is included. The record was kept from 1908 until the late 1910s, and included a list of…[Read more]

Details of the congregations in the British Isles in December 1942 with the Presidents name and address. The addresses have been geo-referenced ready for importation into a GIS. The data contains a snapshot of the geographic distribution of LDS meeting places during the Second World War.