Digital History: Challenges and Opportunities for the ProfessionThis introductory essay presents a broad concept of digital history. Along with the themes covered in the individual articles, it surveys the major issues arising from the digitalization of the field of history. Digitalization has accelerated scholarly communication, publication, This introductory essay presents a broad concept of digital history. Along with the themes covered in the individual articles, it surveys the major issues arising from the digitalization of the field of history. Digitalization has accelerated scholarly communication, publication, and networking. It has made many digital sources, tools, and technologies more easily accessible and has now generated born-digital materials. These changes present both new opportunities and challenges to historians, such as the uneven rates of digitized sources, the advancement of historical hermeneutics, and an increasing demand for digital resources in scholarship within reputation cultures where these remain undervalued.& networking. It has made many digital sources, tools, and technologies more easily accessible & has now generated born-digital materials. These changes present both new opportunities & challenges to historians, such as the uneven rates of digitized sources, the advancement of historical hermeneutics, & an increasing demand for digital resources in scholarship within reputation cultures where these remain undervalued. Lässig, S. (2021). Digital History: Challenges and Opportunities for the Profession. Geschichte Und Gesellschaft, 47(1), 5–34. https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.5