Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally (1764-1765) A resource to publish and explicate the documentary evidence of the first slave trading voyage sponsored by the Brown brothers of Providence, RI. This project arose from the work of the Brown University Committee on Slavery and Justice, led by James Campbell. The committee investigated the contributions that … Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally (1764-1765)
Views and Re-views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons Czech and Russian Soviet-era posters and postcards. Website Status: Completed Views and Re-views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons is a project of David Winton Bell Gallery Contributors to this project include Joanne Conklin
Underground Rhode Island A collection of oral histories and supporting materials about the arts in 20th c. Rhode Island. These materials formed part of an exhibit, and continued to grow as a digital collection. In the spring semester of 2004, the students in Paul Buhle’s oral history class investigated the arts in 20th c. RI. … Underground Rhode Island
US Epigraphy Project The goal of the US Epigraphy project is to create an XML publication of all Greek, Roman and Etruscan epigraphic texts in American collections. Initially, the project focused on collecting metadata and images. It is now also entering the text for each inscription and will eventually add translation and notess. John Bodel … US Epigraphy Project
Theater that Was Rome A digital collection of views and maps from Rome of the 16th-18th c. and a website with further information about individual prints in a selection of the books. This digital collection features a selection of works from the extraordinary collection of Vincent J. Buonanno ’66, focused on views and maps of … Theater that Was Rome
Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice An archive of a wide array of historical documents, from the records of slaving voyages to student commencement orations, digitized in support of the work of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Contributors to this project include James Campbell (Faculty lead)
Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched A site about the influences, context and life of Luise Kulmus (Gottsched), an 18th German poet who played a significant role in bringing the ideas of the English Enlightenment to Germany. The site also contains texts and letters by Kulmus. Katherine Goodman studies the 18th c. poet … Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched
Romanian Love Charms A structural analysis of Romanian love charms. Sanda Golopentia had constructed a corpus of Romanian love charms on the Brown mainframe over 10 years ago. This was implemented by Allen Renear using Waterloo Script, and was used to typeset a book analyzing the love charms. Since then, she has been expanding the … Romanian Love Charms
Pico’s 900 Theses A digital edition of the 900 Theses of Pico de la Mirandola (“Conclusiones Nongentae publicae disputandae”, Rome 1486), published in Latin and English, with an annotation feature available to scholars who are part of the Pico Project. The project, which is part of Massimo Riva’s research on publishing, using and teaching with … Pico’s 900 Theses
Perry In Japan Materials for use in cross-cultural evaluation of Perry’s encounter with the Japanese. Perry In Japan is a project of the Department American Studies Contributors to this project include Susan Smulyan (Faculty lead)
