Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors make it impossible to find the correct match with certainty. We suggest a fully automated method for linking historical datasets that enables researchers to create samples that minimize type I (false positives) and type...

In 2 experiments, understanding of historical subject matter was enhanced when students acted as historians and constructed their own models of an historical event. Providing students with information in a web site with multiple sources instead of a textbook chapter, and instructing them to write arguments instead of narratives, summaries, or explanations, produced the most integrated and causa...

Many archives have introduced online archival databases in the past few years. However, apart from being independent of place and time, hardly any of these databases make finding records any easier than it was before. This paper suggests to put more emphasis on the needs and behavior of users and to provide them with the context in which records were created, thus making it possible to link arc...

p.h.d student in history. in order to have an exact historical, cultural and political study of arabia before the advent of islam it's necessary to study the bedouin and nomads' lives in the following cases. sources: the pre.islamic arabs' poems and the interpretation and .1 proverbs which are remained of them will be used. history: the lives of inhabitants and desert dwellers wh...