Taking Stock
This will be one of my last blog entries prior to the launch of the Black Gotham Digital Archive so it seems like an appropriate [...]
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Apr 2012
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Mar 2012
The Black Gotham Digital Archive: The Draft Riots of July 1863
I found this note in the Harry A. Williamson Papers at the Schomburg Center while doing research for Black Gotham. It’s a central document in [...]
30
Jan 2012
Storytelling
I ended my last blog entry with the suggestion that one possible virtue of virtuality might be that a digital archive inverts the book's relationship [...]
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Dec 2011
Beginnings
It might seem strange to be talking about "beginnings" just as the semester is winding down, but that's exactly where I'm at: taking my very [...]
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Nov 2011
What’s the Virtue of Virtuality?
As is generally the case with things intellectual, progress on my digital archive has been quite slow. I have several "handlers" (as I call them) [...]
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Nov 2011
Confessions
As a professor in the humanities, I've spent a career committed to scholarly research. But I confess to having definite likes and dislikes. Here's what [...]