Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the encouragement and feeback from all of our colleagues as we put these materials together. In particular, we would like to thank the following individuals for their advice on specific portions of the book:

• Mackenzie Brooks
• Eliza Fox
• Julie Kane
• Eric Rochester
• Demitra Tsioulos
• Students from HIST 211

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media holds the copyright for the excerpts used in the lesson of the Close Reading chapter. The full text of the passage can be found on the CHNM site here.

In addition, the cover image is word cloud generated by Voyant, an excellent tool developed by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell that we discuss in our chapters on "Cyborg Readers" and "Reading at Scale."