In my experience growing up and in grad school, history always seemed to be a one sided conversation the historian had with their theoretical approach to the history at hand. While this is useful in many ways, and extremely interesting, it seems overly… untouchable by the masses. If our life is based on memories then history is kind of the life of humanity. The thing that excited me the most about the use of digital media in academia is collaborative history projects. The idea of history being digital and accessible and living is very seductive. Plus, if history is kind of the life of humanity, the more people involved in its construction the better. To this end, come the fall semester I hope to be involved in 1-2 digitization projects and I hope to be able to find a way to make them collaborative and open. I would very much love to get people involved in the creation and memorialization of history that hitorically weren’t allowed to contribute.