A Collections as Data pilot project at the University of Delaware, the network dataset for Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s correspondence is now available for download via the UDel institutional repository. Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an African-American civil rights activist, author, educator, wife of notable poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; the correspondence collection contains her literary, professional, and personal papers, ...

An interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students, library workers, and faculty from Carleton College and Grinnell College are using 3D modeling and VR technology to explore the social and cultural roles of Viking longships, in collaboration with museum professionals from the Viking Museum Haithabu and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. The Virtual Viking ...

The Mapping Racist Covenants project highlights neighborhoods and properties in the Tuscon, AZ area that contained racist language in their covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CCRs) during development, focusing on CCRs from 1912-1968. From the project’s website: The MRC project will deliver an interactive web-based map highlighting the geography of racist CCRs in Tucson that prevented African ...

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s American Religious Ecologies project has received another grant to continue the work, focusing on the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies. The materials are an important source of information about American religious institutions and the project is working on transcribing them into datasets that can be used ...

Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) is an interactive database of literary works by Caribbean people or about the Caribbean experience, led by Schuyler Esprit (Create Caribbean Research Institute) and the students of HIS115: Digital Humanities Research at Dominica State College. From the home page: The database includes authors and titles that represents the diversity of the ...

Periodical Poets is a digital humanities project containing over 500 poems printed in New York-based, nineteenth-century periodicals run by Black editors. Created by Charline Jao with the support of the Cornell Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, the project is sponsored by Cornell University Library & Society for the Humanities. As explained in the project’s ...

The Colored Conventions Project announced the launch of a new online exhibit, “Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Herstory in the Colored Conventions Movement.” The exhibit “examines the work of activist, educator, and newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary within the Colored Conventions Movement. Drawing on various scholarship on Shadd Cary, this exhibit also centers her ...

An interdisciplinary, multi-year, and collaborative digital humanities project, American Soldier in World War II explores previously uncirculated soldier commentaries, primarily from aggrieved Black soldiers serving in the segregated military during the Second World War. In addition to historical essays that contextualize these commentaries, the website offers several resources, including lesson plans and datasets for teaching, ...

Día de los muertos: Altar digital is an ArcGIS StoryMap journey through Hispanic literary heritage. It walks users through different authors, elements, and works that are placed on an ofrenda, created in 2020 by Roselia Bañuelos, Chris Flakus, Julio Antonio Molinete, Elías David Navarro, María Sánchez Carbajo, Alonzo Silavong, and Katerin Zapata at the University ...

Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry, is a collaboration between Kate Elswit (University of London) and Harmony Bench (Ohio State University), and investigates problematizes the analysis and visualization of meaningful data in dance history. Through the case study of choreographer Katherine Dunham, the team has manually cataloged “daily itineraries of Dunham’s ...

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (University of Houston) announces the launch of a new digital project, The Latino Catskills, designed to “resituates the rural Catskills region, located 100 miles northwest of New York City, as a generative space of Latino culture and identities” by focusing on the “countless Spaniards, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and others ...