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Reviews
“By challenging Dick Clark’s claim that he helped integrate American popular music and culture, Matthew Delmont puts the lie to Clark’s air-brushed history of American Bandstand’s role in racial...
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In the Media
Matt Delmont,“Clark Aided Blacks on Bandstand? Not Always,” Washington Post & The Root (4/22/2012) Democracy Now! interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez (3/2/2012). See video below. Click...
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Digital Project
Learn more about the book by checking out the The Nicest Kids in Town digital project. As you navigate this site, you will be able to view over 100 images and video clips related to my book project,...
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Author Info
For interviews and speaking inquires, please e-mail: mdelmont@scrippscollege.edu Dr. Matthew Delmont has lectured widely on topics including African-American history, mixed race identity, the Obama...
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Book Info
The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (University of California Press, 2012, American Crossroads series) American...
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Image Annotations Just Got Easier!
Annotations are an important part of what authors do with Scalar, and indeed, an important part of the platform’s overall feature set. Scalar comes equipped with a full suite of annotation tools...
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Bad object 2.0: Games and gamers
Bad Object 2.0: Games and Gamers, Steve Anderson’s latest article, composed entirely in Scalar, has just been published by G|A|M|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies (No. 4; Vol. 1). According to...
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ANVC Archives + Libraries Workshop
Sherri Berger from the California Digital Library discusses outcomes from her breakout session. The Alliance recognizes that seizing the opportunities of multimedia scholarship will require deep...
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Annotating All Knowledge
Screenshot from Hypothes.is’ intro video featuring Vannevar Bush’s Memex, or memory index. The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture is proud to announce our latest venture with Hypothes.is. Last fall...
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Scalar Webinars: Announcing Our Spring Schedule
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture will offer another series of free online webinars this spring. All webinars will feature our new interface, Scalar 2. Our “Introduction to Scalar” webinars...
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Scalar 2 is Here!
We’re excited to announce the official launch of our new reader interface, Scalar 2! The new interface has been completely rebuilt to give your books greater visual impact while making them easier...
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NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
Today’s a great day for digital research and scholarship in the humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced a new joint fellowship...
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Duke University Press and NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and...
Duke University Press has just announced the launch of two new Scalar works published in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. Dancing with...
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Happy Day of DH from Digital Humanities at Claremont Colleges
Craig Dietrich introduces DHarmony to Claremont Colleges Faculty, Staff, and Students. Happy Day of DH Everyone! We’re here at the Claremont Colleges for the DHarmony event hosted by the Digital...
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UBC Press and the University of Washington Press Receive Mellon Grant to...
Thanks to a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, UBC Press and the University of Washington Press will work with the Scalar team to develop a digital platform for publishing multimedia books...
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Page Layouts in Scalar 2: Media Galleries
Structured Media Gallery. Taken from Jacqueline Wernimont et al’s Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”. Scalar 2 was developed in an effort to give books composed in the platform greater...
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Page Layouts in Scalar 2: Google Maps
Figure 1. Google Map Layout. Taken from Larry Landis’ A Photographic History of Oregon State University. This is the second installment in a series on new layout options in Scalar 2. If you missed our...
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Page Layouts in Scalar 2: Splash Pages and Image Headers
Figure 1. Book Splash Layout. Taken from Steve Anderson’s Bad Object 2.0: Games and Gamers. This is the third installment in a series on our new page layouts in Scalar 2. If you missed the others, you...
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Scalar Webinars: Announcing Our Summer 2016 Schedule
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture will offer another series of free online webinars this summer. All webinars will feature our new interface, Scalar 2. Our “Introduction to Scalar” webinars...
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Special Issue of Urban History Released in Scalar
Urban History has long supported the publication of online-only, multimedia works. Since 2004 the journal, published by Cambridge University Press, has delivered a number of open-access, multimedia...
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