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The Journal of Digital History

Avatars of Colonial Discourse (15.10.2026)�

international · academic · single blind peer-reviewed · open-access journal

based on the principle of multilayered articles

The top layer could be a concise account of the subject, available perhaps in paperback. The next layer could contain expanded versions of different aspects of the argument, not arranged sequentially as in a narrative, but rather as self-contained units that feed into the topmost story. The third layer could be composed of documentation, possibly of different kinds, each set off by interpretative essays. A fourth layer might be theoretical or historiographical, with selections from previous scholarship and discussions of them. A fifth layer could be pedagogic, consisting of suggestions for classroom discussion and a model syllabus. And a sixth layer could contain readers’ reports, exchanges between the author and the editor, and letters from readers, who could provide a growing corpus of commentary as the book made its way through different groups of readers.

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Robert Darnton, « The New Age of the Book », The New York Review, 1999

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Ed Ayers:

• «mature hypertextual history»�lier l’histoire comme discipline et la rigueur qui l’accompagne avec l’esthétique, la navigation que permet le web
• Expérimenter, sur la forme, sur le format

William G. Thomas:

• «fonction prismatique» de l’édition numérique
• «open the process of historical interpretation, (…) providing sequential and interrelated modes of analysis, evidence and their relationship to previous scholarship»
• donner au lecteur la possibilité de comprendre et d’explorer notre travail sur le passé

Ed Ayers, The Pasts and Futures of Digital History, 2001:

William G. Thomas, «Computing and the Historical Imagination» (Companion to Digital Humanities, 2004)

Write (Digital) History.

As an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal, the Journal of Digital History (JDH) will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.

Layers: core concept

demo

From Notebook to Article

From A to Z

to the guidelines

Thanks for your attention

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