Micki Kaufman (doctoral candidate in US History, CUNY Graduate Center) offers an inside look at the digital tools and methods employed in her dissertation, "'Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:' Quantifying Kissinger.”

Focusing on the use of computational approaches to large-scale corpora like the National Security Archive's Kissinger Correspondence, Micki details the many facets of digital history 'at scale,' including problems of access, availability of evidence, and the practical limits in interpretation and verifiability using such methods. Micki also focuses on the use of data visualization to present computational findings, and the specific challenges of employing and contributing digital history methodologies, tools and research findings in a deeply contested historiographical context.

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