Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies. The contents provide a rich cultural resource for those interested in the World War I home front, popular fiction, advertising, and constructions of race and gender during this period.
Price Discovers Whitman Papers
Ken Price, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature and CDRH co-director, recently discovered nearly 3,000 documents in Walt Whitman's handwriting. Price uncovered the documents, which are housed at the National Archives and date to the period Whitman was a clerk in government offices during the Civil War and Reconstruction, with support from NHPRC. The documents will appear on the Walt Whitman Archive in fall 2011. The full announcement from the National Archives can be found here.
Quick Facts
- CDRH is a joint initiative of the UNL Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences
- In 2008, the CDRH published "Promotion & Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities."
- CDRH joined centerNet in 2007.
- CDRH was designated as a Center by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska in 2005.
- UNL has invested $3.4 million in Programs of Excellence funds for the Center from 2004-2015.
