5/6, join online+free @scholarslab.bsky.social event by our DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg for a very good example of DH dissertation work right now: interactive digital pedagogy exploring how we can practice speculative reinterpretation as a way of asking "what if?" when archives fall short +
Literally printing it out!
Ah, of course! Combing through now. Also, many thanks for the utterly fantastic Next-Gen Dissertations site!
Thanks for sharing! Bringing a database back to life and doing it collaboratively, what a great model!
Thanks for sharing! Looks fascinating!
Today is the official pub day for Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now: Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Public Humanities Project.
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Or join us at our book launch on April 30 to be entered to win a free copy. Go.rutgers.edu/chicorybook
Hey friends -
Who's been doing non-traditional humanities dissertations in the past ~5 years?
Tons of fabulous resources from ~2021 and before, but wondering what cool people have been doing lately. References? Links? Exploring new options for our department.
Huge news for Zooniverse -- 3 million registered volunteers!
Next milestone for 2026: 1 BILLION classifications... coming soon!
Using this photo as my headshot for all digital humanities events from now on
That looks great! Will look forward to the article and exploring this fantastic dataset (great for teaching too, I'll bet). We are starting from 1827 and moving forward. 101 issues of Freedom's Journal (relatively) easier than years of a daily. Thanks for sharing.
Perhaps goes without saying, but if you can help us track down any archival holdings of originals (not microfilm) then please holler at us! Making wish lists to digitize anew when & where we can. We'll do bake sales if we gotta!
Today we launched a new working group to map the archives of the early Black press. All the newspaper metadata!
The world's a mess, but it's also full of brilliant researchers who are going to shift much of what we assume about c19 African American print culture & literature. 200th here we come!
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for @dhquarterly.bsky.social (DHQ). Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30th. See the CFP for more details: buff.ly/qpiypXq
And I had the same thought on my way to the airport! The whole gathering was such a fantastic blur. Far too much brilliance for only two days, but perhaps a good excuse to catch up in the near future!
Ooh, gender's been an ongoing question that we've debated for years. Lots of homespun authority control, linking in context, and a parallel effort to collect & parse fuzzy matches for those who are mentioned but not named. "A lady" attended dozens of conventions, turns out!
Screenshot from a forthcoming dataset of names from the Colored Conventions showing that we have the names for at least 285 women. The screenshot has one line that says "Gender: female" and another line that says "Showing 50 of 285 people"
Free dissertation idea:
A history of Black women in the late c19 Colored Conventions. We worked *so* hard to find traces of antebellum women by reading against the grain, but there are SO MANY women in the 1870s-1890s. How does their activism show how the CCs set up the Niagara/NACW/club movements?
Amos Beman Scrapbooks at the Beinecke beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/...
Cassey & Dickerson Friendship Album Project librarycompany.org/portfolio-it...
Both full of rare/unique stuff and lots on c19 print culture things & people. Ellen Garvey's book may have others, of course.
I lived in Budapest for 3 months in 2010, right before Orban came into power. It was a bohemian, cosmopolitan city full of oddballs & artists from the Balkans, former Soviet countries, western Europe, and US expats. Nightlife unlike anywhere else in the world. Wishing for good things after today.
On March 25, 1871, the Committee of Grievances for the 1871 Kentucky State Colored Convention published a pamphlet directed at both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.
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My project, African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology is nominated here.
If you’ve found the project helpful, consider voting for it? Deadline April 17. (And while you’re there, check out the many great projects on the list!)
Y’all, the preorder links for The Political Supreme Court are here!
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OTD: April 5, 1867
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That's a very generous offer. We are okay for now (lucky we had a plan in case of emergency).
Yeah, thanks. Let's just say that Penn State is also dissolving the department of African American Studies at the end of this year. But I do worry about the NEH ODH too. A generational loss. What do we do in 3-5 years when there are way, way fewer new people to bring new ideas & projects?
Nothing is official yet, but, well, ya know
A few years ago I spent the better part of a summer working on a small #DH project called "Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974."
The idea was to trace the emergence of the pan-ethnic idea of "Asian American" identity in a group of magazines.
scalar.lehigh.edu/asian-americ...
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New post: OTD: April 4, 1866. ther3project.substack.com/p/otd-april-...
It’s not just Ms. Rachel.
The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.
Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
It's hard to say. Walker's Appeal is a formidable text with a ton of allusions and it deliberately breaks from the norms for c19 printing & typography in ways that were bound up with its materiality and reception/circulation.
Free idea to a good home: create a great online edition of David Walker's Appeal!
The print editions are decent but too costly for students. Scans are okay, but hard to read and harder to print out. DocSouth has a transcription, but loses all the design elements. It's exactly what TEI is for?
