Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

Winkle to be on WAMU April 16

Brent — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:15:31 +0000

Following a presentation at the National Archives, Ken Winkle, co-lead on the Civil War Washington project, will be a guest of the Kojo Nnamdi show. His appearance is in conjunction with both the relaunch of the CWW site and Emancipation Day in Washington, DC.

Civil War Washington relaunches

Laura — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:29:12 +0000

Civil War Washington relaunches its site (civilwardc.org). New content includes emancipation petitions, medical cases, database, & maps.

Whitman Archive awarded $275,000 NEH grant

Laura — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:31:12 +0000

The Whitman Archive has been awarded a $275,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create item-level finding guides to the nearly seventy individual repositories holding Whitman’s prose manuscripts. The finding guides will attach to each description high-quality digital images for all the prose manuscripts. When coupled with the Whitman Archive’s similarly organized and award-winning guides to Whitman’s poetry manuscripts, this project will provide unprecedented documentation of and access to the literary manuscripts of a major literary figure. For more information, visit http://whitmanarchive.org/

Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing publishes first issue

Laura — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:39:45 +0000

We are delighted to announce the debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, now online at scholarlyediting.org. Published for over 30 years as a print publication titled Documentary Editing, Scholarly Editing continues to publish articles about the theory and practice of editing and reviews of new editions. In addition to this material, Scholarly Editing offers new, innovative content: the journal is among the first—if not *the* first—to publish peer-reviewed editions of primary source materials of cultural significance. We are pleased not only to present editors with a rigorously peer-reviewed publication platform, but also to share fascinating documents from cultural history with the reading public. All of this material is available freely online and is completely open-access.

Sincerely,
Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell, editors

Contents for the 2012 issue:

Introduction:

“Introduction to the First Issue of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing” by Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Editions:

“The Inscription of Walt Whitman’s ‘Live Oak, with Moss’ Sequence: A Restorative Edition” edited by Steven Olsen-Smith (Boise State University)
“Selection from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Digital Critical Edition: ‘Topsy’” edited by Wesley Raabe (Kent State University) and Les Harrison (Virginia Commonwealth University)
“‘The Firstling/Erstling/He Complex’ by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven” edited by Tanya Clement (University of Texas, Austin) and Gaby Divay (University of Manitoba)

Essays:

“Musical Works, Musical Texts, and Musical Editions: A Brief Overview” by Ronald Broude (The Broude Trust)
“A ‘Succession of Little Occurrences’: Scholarly Editing and the Organization of Time in John Tanner’s Narrative” by John Fierst (Central Michigan University)
“The Common Pot: Editing Native American Materials” by Paul Grant-Costa (Yale University), Tobias Glaza (Yale University), and Michael Sletcher (Yale University)
“Documentary Editing in the New Scholarly Ecosystem” (Presidential Address, Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011) by Susan H. Perdue (University of Virginia)

Reviews:

The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina By Michael J. Crawford. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Reviewed by Donna E. Kelly (North Carolina Office of Archives and History)
Reminiscences & Traditions of Boston. By Hannah Mather Crocker. Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting and Sarah L. Houser. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Reviewed by Beverly Wilson Palmer (Pomona College)
Recent Editions. Compiled by W. Bland Whitley, Reviews Editor (Princeton University)

“The Iron Way” named Lincoln Prize finalist

Laura — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:24:09 +0000

William G. Thomas’s “The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America” (Yale) was selected as a finalist for the 2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. The book, an outgrowth of the “Railroads and the Making of Modern America” digital archive project, “illuminates the critical impact of railroad construction, railroad management and the boost railroads provided to regional development during and after the Civil War era.” Read more here.

Thomas on New York Times blog

Brent — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:24:28 +0000

Will Thomas, John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities and Chair of History at UNL, wrote an article on slavery and the railroads for the New York Times. You can read the full article here.

Cargill gives lecture on Dead Sea Scrolls digital project

Brent — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:56:33 +0000

On Feb. 1, 2012 Dr. Robert Cargill, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, will present a digital model of the archaeological site of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Cargill will guide the audience through the site using digital “fly through” technology, enabling the audience to get “up close and personal” with Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Full information can be found at the Classics and Religious Studies site.

Seefeldt to present on Mapping project

Brent — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:36:56 +0000

CDRH Faculty Fellow Doug Seefeldt will share some of the findings from “Mapping Buffalo Bill’s Great Plains,” a digital history research project that examines and displays multiple perspectives on Great Plains history via the lens of the early life and times of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. This event will be at 3:30pm on Jan. 18, 2012 in the Center for Great Plains Studies, 1155 Q St., Lincoln, NE. For complete details visit here.

Omaha Ponca Database View Is Now Available

Laura — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:58:16 +0000

Linguists and others interested in more in-depth information about the Omaha language may view the working database behind the Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary.

Pytlik Zillig, Ramsay Receive Mellon Grant

Brent — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:26:06 +0000

Brian Pytlik Zillig and Stephen Ramsay of the CDRH recently received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to further their work on textual analysis through a program called Abbot. You can read the full announcement from UNL communications here.

Every Week website available

Brent — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:48:23 +0000

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. Until the development of this digital edition, the magazine could be accessed by scholars and readers only with great difficulty due to its embrittled condition and rarity. Magazines provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin.

New CDRH video introduction

Brent — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:52:28 +0000

UNL Communications has put together a new video available here highlighting just a couple of the Center’s more than 30 projects.

UNL announces Digital Humanities cluster hire

Laura — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:25:30 +0000

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) announces a cluster hire in digital humanities: over the next three years the university intends to hire six tenure-line faculty members across a number of departments (and additional staff) to further propel this signature program. For more information, please visit the CDRH announcement.

Will Thomas talk on C-SPAN

Brent — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:37:04 +0000

William G. Thomas, III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Department Chair and Author of “The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America” will be part of a discussion about the presidential election of 1896 and explore the life of William Jennings Bryan. This program will air on C-SPAN at 7pm central time.

Ramsay gives Digging Into Data talk

Brent — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:58:22 +0000

Associate Professor Stephen Ramsay recently gave a lecture titled “Prison Art” at the Digging Into Data conference held in Washington D.C. Please click here to read The Chronicle of Higher Education article.

Cather announcement streamed

Brent — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:02:03 +0000

The announcement of the recently received Charles E. Cather Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was streamed live May 12, 2011 at 10 a.m. The video for the announcement can be viewed here. Present at the announcement were Guy Reynolds, professor of English and director of the Cather Project at UNL, and Andrew Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive. The UNL Communications office also has a complete write up of the event here.

This new addition gives UNL the largest single collection of Cather material anywhere.

Price discovers new Whitman papers

Brent — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:06:34 +0000

Hillegass University Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and CDRH co-director Ken Price recently discovered a large collection of handwritten Walt Whitman documents.

“A huge collection of government documents handwritten by Walt Whitman when the poet was a federal clerk has been unearthed. The find, announced on Tuesday by the National Archives, gives scholars a detailed guide to the national and political issues—such as war crimes, voting rights, and westward expansion—that Whitman encountered in Washington during the Reconstruction era. The documents also bring to life an under appreciated side of the poet: his life and work as a bureaucrat.”

To read the entire Chronicle for Higher Education article click here

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has made a short video of Professor Price explaining this finding here.

“Railroads, the Making of Modern America, and the Shaping of the Great Plains” Wed @ 3:30

Brent — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:43:04 +0000

“Railroads, the Making of Modern America, and the Shaping of the Great Plains” is the topic of the Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies. William G. Thomas III will speak from 3:30-5 p.m., April 13 in the Great Plains Art Museum.

The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception at the museum are free and open to the public.

Click here for the full announcement

Fellowships Available for Digital Humanities Research

Brent — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:28:23 +0000

The UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is seeking proposals from faculty for its 2011-12 fellowship in interdisciplinary digital humanities research.

Digital projects are often collaborative, multi-year undertakings of a scale that exceeds that of an article or monograph. In the best cases, a project significantly alters scholarship in a field of study. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., April 29. For additional details about the application, expectations and examples of projects, go to the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities website.

Price, Winkle to speak on “Changing Places”

Laura — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:37:23 +0000

CDRH Co-Director Ken Price and Civil War Washington project co-director Ken Winkle will participate in a panel discussion “Changing Places: The Geographic Turn in the Digital Humanities” on March 10 at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum. Winkle will be presenting on the Civil War Washington project and Price will moderate the event, which also features Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Philip Ethington, Professor of History and Political Science at USC. The panel is sponsored by the Plains Humanities Alliance, The Center for Great Plains Studies, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Convocations Committee and the Research Council.