id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-24623 Avery, Joshua Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History. Kevin Kee and Timothy Compeau, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019. 254p. Hardcover, $75.00 (ISBN: 978-0-472-13111-2). 2020-09-10 3 .pdf application/pdf 1760 67 45 Geoffrey Rockwell and Sean Gouglas share how mobile devices can help the general public learn more about local history, while Timothy Compeau and Robert MacDougall share the lessons they learned in designing and running two educational, history games that wove student learning about the War of 1812 with “threshold concepts” (191) about the discipline of history. It is to these very tasks—accessing, understanding, and teaching history—that Kevin Kee and Timothy Compeau, both historians, contribute Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History the most recent offering in the Digital Humanities Series from the University of Michigan Press. Aimed at historians and digital humanists, the volume will, nevertheless, be of interest to librarians and archivists for its explo- ration of how scholars are using physical and digital collections in new and innovative ways. cache/crl-24623.pdf txt/crl-24623.txt