In the article, “Promises and Perils of Digital History,” one characteristic of digital media that I found interesting was flexibility.  Cohen and Rosenzweig state that flexibility allows us to “more easily preserve, study, and present the past in the multiple media that expressed and recorded it.”  What is most important about this characteristic as it relates to history is the ability to present through multiple mediums such as film, sound, images, and basic text.  While history textbooks may state all the facts and figures about notable people and events, seeing history through video and sound brings the past to life.

Three possible topics that I would like to research are Kristallnacht, the Axis Power invasion of Yugoslavia, and the July Crisis.