New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @samhfranz.com (@upenn.edu)’s review of Reem Hilu (Washington University in St. Louis)’s book _The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New book review: Franz on Hilu, Reem: _Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s, The_. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20148314

Join us for UPenn ABD & CBI Tomash Fellow @samfranz.bsky.social for the Tomash Fellow Lecture. Sam's talk "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945-1990." March 10th 1pm C. Register today (free) at link below. #Histtech #Capitalism z.umn.edu/FranzTomashL...

In a short piece on the history of accessible design, I was quoted on the history of computing at the University of Michigan. Read here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Pioneering Accessibility: Early Computing, Screen Readers, and New Tech | Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan Pioneering Accessibility: Early Computing, Screen Readers, and New Tech ...

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With Véronique Mickisch I interviewed Edward Baring on the history of worker education in Marxist thought for JHI Blog

Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought. @uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social

Brief reflection on materialist and Marxist approaches to the history of science in the latest HSS Newsletter, co-authored with @bolman.bsky.social & Claire Votava cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...

A brief reflection on digital tools for the humanities, published by Clio and the Contemporary: clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/05/23/d...

Digital Tools for the Humanities

Machines reconfigure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workflows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds…

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