“History is speeding up”
Ted Widmer reflects on Lincoln research, utilizing digitized materials, and blogging: http://news.brown.edu/features/2011/02/disunion . See also the Library’s “Lincolniana at Brown.”
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Welcome to the Center for Digital Scholarship
I take pride in welcoming you to the new website for the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). Formed in 2009 through the merger of the Scholarly Technology Group, the Women Writers Project and the Center for Digital Initiatives, the Center for Digital Scholarship has greatly expanded the Librarys ability to support and explore new forms … Welcome to the Center for Digital Scholarship
Cultural Correspondence featured in Scout Report
The Cultural Correspondence site has been featured in the Internet Scout Project’s Scout Report: In the early 1970s, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner began to think about creating a new and unique journal. They were both veterans of the journal Radical America, and they were both interested in popular culture. As August 1975 came around, … Cultural Correspondence featured in Scout Report
Digital Humanities table at ALA Midwinter
CDS has organized a table at the ALA midwinter meeting in Boston (January 15-18, 2010) on “Showcasing Digital Humanities”, which will include eight other digital humanities centers, projects, and publishers. It promises to be an interesting event. The table is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, to enable digital humanities centers and … Digital Humanities table at ALA Midwinter
New texts added to Women Writers Online
The Women Writers Project recently added fourteen new texts to Women Writers Online, its collection of women’s writing in English published before 1850. Highlights of the latest additions include Ann Cooke’s translation ofThe Sermons of Barnardine Ochine (1570), Eliza Haywood’sThe British Recluse (1722), Sarah Pennington’sAn Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (1773), Susanna Rowson’sThe … New texts added to Women Writers Online