Marshall Poe: professional historian with some cool projects

April 18, 2008 7:09 AM

New Books In History. Historian Marshall Poe talks with other historians about their newly published books.

Marshall Poe is involved in a number of interesting projects including an upcoming book about Wikipedia: Everyone Knows Everything. The Rise of WikiWorld and the Democratization of Knowledge; he is a regular contributor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of "The Hive"; he founded MemoryArchive, "the encyclopedia of memories." And he is working on a new website "historyshorts.org" (not up yet) that will have short videos about history.

posted by stbalbach (5 comments total)

MeFi's Own.
posted by nasreddin at 7:12 AM on April 18, 2008

Also: mensch.

I'll have to point my dad to NBIH; I do very little history reading, but he'd probably love the project.
posted by cortex at 8:13 AM on April 18, 2008

When I'm no longer at work, I am going to have to explore this extensively.
posted by sandraregina at 9:15 AM on April 18, 2008

You could have answered my question in this thread, but I'll take a FPP too. Thanks!
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:54 AM on April 18, 2008

So, one of the authors there is one the publisher I work for published. Bowers, the Priestley book on Unitarianism. Now I can justify my Mefi reading at work as work. Cool.
posted by Toekneesan at 7:20 PM on April 18, 2008