Digital Project - Haiti: An Island Luminous An Island Luminous is a site to help readers learn about Haiti’s history. Created by historian Adam M. Silvia and hosted online by Digital Library of the Caribbean, An Island Luminous combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos scanned by archives and libraries in Haiti and the United States … Continue reading DIGITAL: Haiti: An Island Luminous
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AWARD: Colored Conventions Wins MLA Award
#ADPhD congratulations the Colored Conventions Project which has won the tenth biennial MLA Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project. It will be presented to P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, from the University of Delaware, on behalf of the Colored Conventions Project team. From the MLA's Prize citation: The Colored … Continue reading AWARD: Colored Conventions Wins MLA Award
DIGITAL: Brown on Slavery’s History in the Age of the Database
Vincent Brown discusses slavery and the database at Duke University: 'By responding creatively to the archival challenges presented by the social history of slavery, Harvard Professor Vincent Brown hopes to inspire new conversations about the inheritance of loss and the legacy of struggle. This presentation considers three graphic histories: an animated visualization of Voyages: The … Continue reading DIGITAL: Brown on Slavery’s History in the Age of the Database
DIGITAL: Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
New Digital Project - Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, directed by Jillian E. Galle: "The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery is a Web-based initiative designed to foster inter-site, comparative archaeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean. Our goal is to help scholars from different disciplines use archaeological evidence … Continue reading DIGITAL: Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
ARTICLES/DIGITAL: Foreman and more on the Colored Conventions Project
A recent issue of Common-Place (16.1, 2015) featured a roundtable on the Colored Conventions Project: Vol. 16 No. 1 Convention Minutes and Unconventional Proceedings Colored Conventions Project Roundtable Jim Casey Vol. 16 No. 1 Liberating History: Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project Colored Conventions Project Roundtable Carol A. Rudisell Vol. 16 … Continue reading ARTICLES/DIGITAL: Foreman and more on the Colored Conventions Project
ARTICLE/JOURNAL/DIGITAL: Social Text Special Issue on Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive
Special Issue of Social Text (33:4, 2015) on "The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive," including a roundtable on slavery, mapping, and the digital humanities. Guest edited by Laura Helton, Justin Leroy, Max A. Mishler, Samantha Seeley, and Shauna Sweeney Articles Helton, Laura, Justin Leroy, Max A. Mishler, Samantha Seeley, and Shauna Sweeney. … Continue reading ARTICLE/JOURNAL/DIGITAL: Social Text Special Issue on Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive
DIGITAL: Rudisell of the Colored Conventions Project on Copyright and Doing Digital Black History
Carol A. Rudisell, librarian at the University of Delaware Library, writes about working with the Colored Conventions Project (previously featured at #ADPhD & Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog): "During the past three years I’ve had the opportunity of working collaboratively with the Colored Conventions Project (CCP), a dedicated team of scholars, students, and library professionals whose … Continue reading DIGITAL: Rudisell of the Colored Conventions Project on Copyright and Doing Digital Black History
PODCAST: Brown on “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
Vincent Brown interviewed by MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing on doing histories of slavery and digital history: "Multimedia scholarship invites reconsideration of how history has been, could be, and should be represented. By wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery, Harvard’s Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways … Continue reading PODCAST: Brown on “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
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