Digital Humanities

  • Hungarian Born population, 1940 and 1960

    This graphic maps the population of US residents born in Hungarian as reported in the 1940 and 1960 decennial censuses. The maps display the total for each county in the US, with the darker red indicating larger numbers of residents born in Hungary. This comparison reveals the increased number of Hungarian-born residents after the displacements continue reading

  • What I Do: What is Digital Humanities?

    Another aspect of my work is the attempt to answer historical questions with computers, a concept known as digital history or digital humanities.[1] Before starting my doctorate program, I worked fulltime in Information Technology for twelve years. During that time, I worked in several sectors and verticals and across various subspecialties within the IT domain. So, continue reading

  • The historian’s life: tales of intersecting sources

    Note: This post is later than expected partly because my schedule was unusually busy last week but also because the post I started to write was too long and winding. I will come back to that topic, but in the interim I thought I would offer this brief glimpse into how historian’s work. -PCL Yesterday continue reading