@article{f969cee286cb460b954237baf9166e06,
title = "Using technology, making history: A collaborative experiment in interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship",
abstract = "Since the summer of 2002 the three of us - a historian, a computer scientist and a software architect - have been devoted to an attempt to combine teaching and scholarship in history and computer science. This effort involves a course that enrols both history and computer science majors who work together in teams as part of an effort by the class as a whole to do original historical research and present their findings on the Internet in a way that uses the dynamic capabilities of the Web. The historical topic of the course is the noted Plan of Chicago of 1909, a major document in American urban history. This course is part of a collaboration between Northwestern University and two nearby cultural institutions, the Chicago Historical Society and the Art Institute of Chicago, which have digitized relevant holdings for use by the students. One of the class's goals is to develop a prototype for an entry in the forthcoming online version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago.",
keywords = "Chicago, Computing, History, Interdisciplinary, Teaching, Urban",
author = "Brian Dennis and Carl Smith and Jonathan Smith",
note = "Funding Information: that undertakings like ours often encounter. To facilitate both the class and to support the creation of the IDE, the Chicago Historical Society has scanned each page of the Plan at very high resolution, as well as many other documents and images, including the original Guerin drawings in its possession. The Historical Society also created a digital version of the text that may be searched and tagged. The staff of the Ryerson and Burnham Archives of the Art Institute of Chicago, which hold many materials relating to the Plan, most important among them the papers of both Burnham and Bennett (Figure 3), as well as lantern slides that were used in publicizing the Plan, have so far prepared some 800 scans for our use. This scanning work was done as part of a grant to the Ryerson and Burnham Archives from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Funding Information: Both the Chicago Historical Society and the Art Institute of Chicago arranged to make the originals of all the documents they have scanned as well as other items (the Historical Society, for example, holds the records of the Commercial Club) conveniently accessible to our students in their respective buildings. The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at North-western, with support from the Hewlett Fund for Curricular Innovation, has provided funding to cover the costs of gathering and organizing both digitized and printed materials, while the Northwestern University Library, which has its own extensive holdings of relevance to the Plan, has furnished work space for the project. Finally, we continue to consult with several individuals and organizations in the Chicago area who have special knowledge of and interest in the Plan of Chicago. Among the organizations is Chicago Metropolis 2020, whose purpose is to encourage metropolitan regional planning for the twenty-first century, and it has produced its own publications on this topic, including a website (http://www. chicagometropolis2020.org/index.htm). Funding Information: Wishing to focus the class on a subject related to Carl{\textquoteright}s research in American urban history, we chose the 1909 Plan of Chicago, often called the Burnham Plan after its primary author, the noted Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham (Figure 1). The editors of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Chicago suggested the Plan to us. The Encyclopedia, which is sponsored by the Newberry Library in cooperation with the Chicago Historical Society (major funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the City of Chicago, and the State of Illinois), will be published by the University of",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1080/13642520410001683969",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
pages = "303--317",
journal = "Rethinking History",
issn = "1364-2529",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "2",
}