The shadow of cliometrics

• US-practiced history departments are especially computation shy.
• Because of: Cliometrics? Time on the Cross? Something else?
• (It’s not a digital humanities problem, it’s a US digital history problem)

• Cliometrics didn’t fail.
• Its failures block computational history further.

Why is this split so strong?

• Time on the Cross was terrible.
• The US is different because of slavery/race.
• Something else: The NEH excludes history from social science (1964)

Can/should we reconcile?

Land grant dates

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RR grants

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