Journal of Digital History

Journal of Digital History The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is a joint initiative of the C²DH (University of Luxembourg) and the De Gruyter publishing group.

A joint initiative of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (https://www.facebook.com/c2dh.lu) and De Gruyter Publishing Group

How have German politicians dealt with the burdensome legacy of militarism after the Second World War? This paper explor...
15/12/2025

How have German politicians dealt with the burdensome legacy of militarism after the Second World War? This paper explores the connotations of the Wehrmacht in political speech through word embeddings trained on parliamentary proceedings.

This paper investigates the evolving connotations of the Wehrmacht in post-war German parliamentary politics. By analysing term frequencies and comparing diachronic word embeddings on a corpus of German parliamentary debates, we measure prevalence and context of references to the Wehrmacht over time...

Early modern letters are full of phrases like “God willing” or “By God’s grace.” Sara Budts’ analysis of 5,000 letters s...
11/12/2025

Early modern letters are full of phrases like “God willing” or “By God’s grace.” Sara Budts’ analysis of 5,000 letters shows these weren’t clichés but ways to navigate faith, agency, and uncertainty. From 1450–1700, people balanced divine will with human action in shifting ways.

In the wake of Reinhart Koselleck’s seminal work on temporality (1979), historians studying past futures in Western Europe have argued that our current understanding of the future dates back to the period between 1500 and 1800. The medieval, Christian conception of time was largely cyclical in nat...

Examining LLMs as historical sources: This study applies source criticism to AI training data, revealing how patterns of...
05/12/2025

Examining LLMs as historical sources: This study applies source criticism to AI training data, revealing how patterns of digitization shape what these tools encode. Case studies map this 'jagged frontier' of capabilities across historical tasks, languages & time periods.

This article examines how digital historians can use large language models (LLMs) as research tools while critically assessing their limitations through source criticism of their underlying training data. Case studies of LLM performance on historical knowledge benchmarks, oral history transcriptions...

Methodology-focused: How can historians work with thousands of hours of sound? This article introduces segmentation & di...
12/09/2025

Methodology-focused: How can historians work with thousands of hours of sound? This article introduces segmentation & dimensionality reduction methods for large-scale radio archives, showing how computational analysis reveals hidden structures in public service broadcasting

This work aims to explore the relationship between sound archives and historiography, focusing on the Swedish case of mass media archiving from the 1980s. The study investigates the sonic content of public service radio changes during the introduction of commercial broadcasting, using computational....

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