Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies is “a digital scholarly archive of the annual directory of London sex workers, published between 1760 and 1794. This project provides access to all eighteen surviving editions (the earliest from 1761) and explores the lives of women in Georgian London’s sex trade through critical historical analysis.” Edited by Alexander ...

The Early Black Boston Digital Almanac (EBBDA) is “a site dedicated to highlighting the various movements, locations, art, and rhetoric of Black figures and coalitions that shaped Boston’s history, and thusly, its present.” Developed by a team of researchers at Northeastern University, with connections to the Department of English, the Department of History, the Africana ...

Library Futures intern Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen developed As long as the sun shines: Indigenous digital libraries across North America, a StoryMap that explores questions of Indigenous sovereignty in Canadian digital libraries. As he reflects in his introductory blog post: In North America, libraries and archives have traditionally participated in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Stolen ...

A former member of a student-run university broadcasting station at Kyonggi University in South Korea has developed the VOKU (Voice of Kyonggi University) Archive, a digitization project including detailed documentation of a workflow for LLM-assisted name redaction to preserve the privacy of students and staff whose names appear on the over 66,000 cue sheets used ...

Chinese Red Record documents anti-Chinese lynchings, riots, massacres, and expulsions in the American West between 1850 and 1915. Created by Kevin Hegg as a companion to his dissertation work conducted at James Madison University, The Chinese Red Record: Western Lynch Law and the Nationalization of Racial Terror, 1853–1915, the archive takes its title from Ida ...

Archive Stories is an open-access website about working with creative and non-traditional archives. It is curated by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, designed by Frederick Kannemeyer, and funded by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rather than offering a new definition of the archive, the curators focus on archiving as a creative practice ...

Old Toronto turns more than 37,000 archival photographs from the City of Toronto Archives and Toronto Public Library into walking tours of the city. The tool builds on OldTO, the geocoded photo map originally created by Sidewalk Labs and later revived by Back Lane Studios. While OldTO showed what was photographed in a given place, ...

The Prison Data Explorer is a project of Trans Pride Initiative (TPI), a Texas nonprofit, that presents live data from TPI’s correspondence with trans and queer people in prison, primarily in Texas, but also in other state and federal prison systems. The Explorer charts more than 28,000 letters exchanged with over 2,000 people, including the ...

OutHistory is a public history website dedicated to generating, presenting, and promoting high-quality, evidence-based LGBTQ+ historical research for broad audiences, with a non-exclusive focus on the United States and Canada. Founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, the platform’s core mission is to foster broad community participation in the process of discovering and writing LGBTQ+ histories, prioritizing under-represented ...

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) recently launched new online tools to make fragmented archival materials about Japanese war crimes in Asia and the Pacific during World War II more accessible to students, scholars, and the public. Led by historians, librarians, and GIS specialists, the initiative brings together trial records, ...