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18 Apr 2014

Transforming The Afro-Caribbean World

By |2019-01-15T10:29:51-05:00Apr 18, 2014|

The University of Maryland’s Center for the History of the New America (CHNA) has partnered with MITH to develop the Transforming the Afro-Caribbean World (TAW) project to bring together scholars of the Panama Canal, Afro-Caribbean history, and experts in the digital humanities, data modeling, and visualization for a two-day planning workshop that will discuss a large-scale effort to explore Afro-Caribbean labor, migration, and the Panama Canal.

31 Mar 2014

Princeton Prosody

By |2019-01-15T10:30:44-05:00Mar 31, 2014|

In late 2013, MITH partnered with the Princeton Prosody Archive to build tools and modules for processing and indexing volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library, with the goal of creating a comprehensive online archive of English-language monographs on verse meter and prosody in the public domain. These tools allow research groups like the Prosody Archive to import HathiTrust volumes into a Drupal installation for browsing, reading, full-text search, and metadata correction.

31 Mar 2014

Walt Whitman’s Annotations

By |2019-01-15T10:30:47-05:00Mar 31, 2014|

The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Working in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the project team is focusing on Walt Whitman’s annotations and commentary about history, science, theology, and art being discussed during his time.

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.

6 Mar 2012

Review, Revise, Requery

By |2017-02-05T21:25:38-05:00Mar 6, 2012|

This study considers the unlikely popularity of contemporary ekphrastic poems, particularly those by female poets in the U.S., and theorizes a broader, more complex model to explain how the genre operates, one which accounts for inter-aesthetic relationships historically labeled as outliers. Using advanced computational methods, this project challenges longstanding critical assumptions about ekphrasis.

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.

28 Feb 2012

Vocal Visions

By |2016-07-13T10:58:49-04:00Feb 28, 2012|

The Visual Accent Dialect Archive (VADA) was created as a central resource for performers seeking authentic dialects and accents of the English language in which [...]

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