On Africa Past and Present: Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University, discusses building an international database of biographical information on all enslaved Africans. He outlines this digital history project’s contribution to the study of slavery, race, and broader themes in global history. This is the first part of a … Continue reading AUDIO: Lovejoy on Building Databases of Enslaved Africans | Africa Past and Present
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DIGITAL: Maryland State Archives Launches Name Database
The Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery in Maryland: An Archives of Maryland Electronic Publication has launched "Beneath the Underground." From the website: The Beneath the Underground database features entries of over 300,000 individuals including, white and black, slave owners, enslaved and free individuals from primarily the years of 1830 through 1880 to review. Listed … Continue reading DIGITAL: Maryland State Archives Launches Name Database
Tweets from the Atlantic Slave Biographies Database Conference at #MSU
Tweets from the Atlantic Slave Biographies Database Conference (#ASBDmsu) held at Michigan State University, November 8-9, 2013. Livetweeting courtesy of African Diaspora, Ph.D. on Twitter (@afrxdiasporaphd) [View the story "Tweets from the Atlantic Slave Biographies Database Conference at #MSU" on Storify] For more information, see here CONF: Biographies: Atlantic Slave Database Conference at MSU | … Continue reading Tweets from the Atlantic Slave Biographies Database Conference at #MSU
CONF: Biographies: Atlantic Slave Database Conference at MSU
Biographies: Atlantic Slave Database Conference Michigan State University November 8th & 9th 2013 "In 2011, with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, MSU’s History Department and MATRIX initiated Biographies: The Atlantic Slave Data Network (ASDN). We seek to provide a platform for researchers to upload, analyze, visualize, and utilize data they have … Continue reading CONF: Biographies: Atlantic Slave Database Conference at MSU
WEB: Visual Culture of the American Civil War
New website: The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more. The era’s visual media heralded an unprecedented change in the production and availability of pictorial media … Continue reading WEB: Visual Culture of the American Civil War
DATABASE: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements
via official website: The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project makes available some 2400 advertisements that appeared in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and 1840. A collaboration between The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), the project builds on the work of Freddie … Continue reading DATABASE: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements
REVIEW: Johnson on STN’s 18th Century French Book Trade Database
From The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe website: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794. As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, … Continue reading REVIEW: Johnson on STN’s 18th Century French Book Trade Database
DIGITAL: Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive
Spanning nearly 5,000 years and documenting virtually all forms of media, the Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive is an unprecedented research project devoted to the systematic investigation of how people of African descent have been perceived and represented in art. Started in 1960 by Jean and Dominique de … Continue reading DIGITAL: Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive
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