Digital Methods Can Help You . . . If You're Careful, Critical, and Not Historiographically Naïve

This special section on the digital history of psychology includes target articles by Ivan Flis and Nees Jan van Eck and Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, with comments by Melinda Baldwin, Ted Porter, and Chris Green. In his introduction to the section, Burman explains his original motivation in turning to tools borrowed from the digital humanities: helping graduate students to identify dissertation topics more easily, and thereby reduce completion times for the doctorate, while at the same time doing "good history." Since then, a new field-digital history of psychology-has blossomed. John Burnham, especially, is recognized here as an important interlocutor.