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In Cameron Blevins blog post, Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense, he talks about a division that is happening between quantitative history and public history. He first explains the pros and cons of quantitative history saying that it “serves primarily as a cautionary tale” and has forced digital historians to stay away from making advanced scholarly claims. He moves on to discuss the public history and their main goal of overriding ideology to democratized access to the past. He goes on to say that public history had become one of the most influential sources of history reaching out to a much broader and diverse audience than any other sort of humanity topic or reading. What I found interesting was the writer’s inclusion of Franco Moretti’s ideology of “distant reading” and how in digital historian readings it is the complete opposite. I agree with  when she said, “an interesting point that Cameron Blevins makes is that digital history began with archival collections, and digitization of certain sources,” because it was really brought to light how digital history has went from being so limited to being this vast world of different articles because of the World Web. At the end of Blevins’s blog, he reassures his argument that “it is time to spend less time talking about digital history’s potential to generate new arguments about the past and more time actually making them.