History on the web is pioneering a new way for historians to conduct their practice. History on the web is making it easier for historians to research their topic and comprise that data into a historical work. However, as we have learned throughout the course, this new way of conducting history is not for everyone and not without its own problems. As stated by Weller in his book, there are many issues that have risen from History on the web, to name a few, cost, accuracy, and control over these sources. These problems prove to be detrimental to history on the web and until they are solved they hamper the usefulness of this new form of history. Also as brought up by this course, there have been fights over traditional history and this new form of history, which has raged since the dawn of history on the web. However as stated in class, and by Weller in the book, these fights are unnecessary. History on the web is not threatening to the way in which traditional historians do their job. Traditional historians can remain doing their job the same way as they have learned and done themselves for years; history on the web is just a new form of doing history which makes history easier for those that grew up from on web. Both these forms of doing history are separate from each other, yet help each other in many ways, and in my belief, if used together would fix the problems that each form of doing history faces. Overall, history on the web, taking into consideration the class, book, and my own opinion, is just a new method of doing history. Once the problems are fixed it will be a very useful tool for future historians. Although traditional history will still be needed and used, do to some problems the web cannot fix, I believe history one the web will be taught and used more by future historians than traditional history. Although the book makes it clear that traditional history is safe from History on the web, I think this is stretching the truth. Although traditional history will always be needed, with online access to books and materials, I think traditional history will become obsolete, a method only used as a last resort when a historian cannot find something specific online and must use the archives to finish their work.
Tumblr has been a very useful tool in learning more about history on the web. Not only the ease of access to other students’ and professors’ posts, but also the ability to easily search the site for others who have an interest in history and post their own historical ideas. It was easy to find pages that interest you, which you could then follow and get inspired by. I myself found a page devoted to ancient swords and weaponry, which I learned a lot more from and a lot faster than I could have done myself looking through various websites and books. I believe Tumblr is a useful tool for historians to get a feel for other topics they previously ignored as well because of the overwhelming amount of pages one can follow. Even though it is seen as a website used to pass the time Tumblr could be a very useful research tool for historians looking for a topic that interests them. Overall Tumblr was not only useful to this class for obvious reasons, but also to connecting us historians to each other, sharing our passions in a more creative way then papers and books and encouraging historians to remember the fun side to history.
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