Introduction—on tools, bit by bit

This thematic issue of the Journal of Digital History focuses on different digital tools that are used to study, explore, and narrate the past. Our idea has been to collect a broad range of articles that demonstrate and critique new ways of exploring the past through computational means—all in order to open up and problematize the use of digital methods in historical research, including analytical reflections on the possibilities (and limitations) of the analytical tools in question. The issue also includes articles that combine multiple media modalities—from text and sound, to 3D and moving images.