Thanks for posting this. Very useful overview and much of the reading was new to me.<p>Anyone interested in this syllabus might also want to check out Palladio, a Stanford digital history tool which grew out of the &quot;Mapping the Republic of Letters&quot; project mentioned in the syllabus. The basic idea is to allow researchers to easily turn their spreadsheets of historical&#x2F;archival data into visualizations:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;palladio.designhumanities.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;palladio.designhumanities.org</a><p>They&#x27;re still working out the kinks but I think it&#x27;s a very promising idea. I do wish it was less focused on mapping networks of individuals as opposed to other types of historical data, though.