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6 Jul 2015

Constitutional Regime Leadership in a World of States

By |2017-02-05T21:25:33-05:00Jul 6, 2015|

This was a project of Spring 2007 MITH Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Michael Evans. At the time of his fellowship, Michael's dissertation was entitled “Constitutional Regime Leadership in a World of States,” and involved the use of digital technologies to analyze the public and private writings of Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton to better establish how their core beliefs about the nature and the causes of war and peace influenced their views on constitutional design

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2 Jul 2015

Electronic Skin: Community Building and Virtual Embodiment

By |2017-02-05T21:25:33-05:00Jul 2, 2015|

This was a project of Spring 2011 MITH Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Maria Velazquez. Her dissertation, "Electronic Skin: Community Building and Virtual Embodiment" investigated the creative processes through which citizens are made, with particular attention to the role that technologies like blogging, virtual reality, and electronic activism foster the use of “imaginative embodiment” in creating stories of citizenship, selfhood, and action.

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30 Apr 2013

“O Say Can You See”: the Early Washington, D.C. Law and Family Project

By |2019-01-15T10:31:00-05:00Apr 30, 2013|

“O Say Can You See”: the Early Washington, D.C. Law and Family Project explores multi-generational black and white family networks in early Washington, D.C., by collecting, digitizing, making accessible, and analyzing over 4,000 case files from the D.C. court from 1808 to 1815, records of Md. courts, and related documents about these families.

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6 Mar 2012

Black Gotham Archive

By |2016-01-29T16:53:15-05:00Mar 6, 2012|

The Black Gotham Digital Archive links an interactive web site, smart phones, and the geographical spaces of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn to create a deeper understanding of nineteenth-century black New York.

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10 Feb 2012

Rethinking the Americas: Teaching History Outreach Project on the Americas

By |2019-01-15T10:32:35-05:00Feb 10, 2012|

Rethinking the Americas Teaching History was an educational outreach project created as a collaboration between the University of Maryland's Department of History, the David C. Driskell Center, and Montgomery County Public Schools. This three-year project was designed to enrich teachers' understanding of history, and improve student learning among Montgomery County middle and high schools.

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7 Feb 2012

Early Americas Digital Archive

By |2019-08-14T11:59:53-04:00Feb 7, 2012|

The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA was published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) under the general editorship of Professor Ralph Bauer, at the University of Maryland at College Park.

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7 Feb 2012

Our Americas Archive Partnership

By |2019-01-15T10:34:04-05:00Feb 7, 2012|

The Our Americas Archive Partnership is a collaboration between MITH's Early Americas Digital Archive and Rice University's Americas Archive, Rice's Humanities Research Center, Rice's Fondren Library and the library at Instituto Mora in Mexico. Its goal is to make digitally available texts written in or about the Americas that represent the full range and complexity of a multilingual "Americas" including Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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