Digital History

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You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help you develop those skills as part of a growing community of leaders at universities, libraries, archives, museums, and scholarly societies.

Sara Harwood, a Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University, describes a digital history project she led:

New podcast on Reframing History, a a podcast series produced by Julian C Chambliss, Professor of History and Core Faculty in the Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR) at Michigan State University:

Hilary Green and Transformative Digital History

Molly Nebiolo, a PhD Candidate in history at Northeastern University writes about her digital exhibit project:

H Digital History is issuing a call for new Network Editors and Review Editors. If you are interested in joining H Digital History's volunteer team of Editors, please email us at editorial-digital-history@mail.h-net.org with a C.V. and cover letter attached.

Repost from H-Asia

Dear Colleagues,

New article of interest:

Dear Colleagues,

"In recent days, the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice Project has taken on renewed importance, as it provides a foundation for understanding the history of racism in the Twin Cities and its social and economic effects.

The project has uncovered, documented, and mapped the systematic use of property deeds to enforce racial segregation in the Minneapolis area."

"A new effort from the Library of Congress has digitized and organized photos and illustrations from centuries of news using state of the art machine learning.

Led by Ben Lee, a researcher from the University of Washington occupying the Library’s “Innovator in Residence” position, the Newspaper Navigator collects and surfaces data from images from some 16 million pages of newspapers throughout American history."