What else is there to say about a month that hosts both Tax Day and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Drop by the lobby of the John Hay Library to find out. The exhibit features Lincolniana from the Hay Library’s McLellan Lincoln Collection, and constitutes a final farewell to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. “April is … “April is the Cruelest Month…”
Women in the Archives is a one-day colloquium co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at Brown University, to be held on April 24, 2010 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women’s writing, and the … Women in the Archives
Windows into Early Science and Craft: Selections from the Persian Manuscripts of the Minassian Collection Curated by Dr. Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University Main Gallery, John Hay Library 20 Prospect Street, Providence, RI 02912 Open to the Public March 12 – April 5, 2010 Hours This exhibit presents the subject of early science and craft through … “Windows into Early Science and Craft” Exhibit
The 15,000th digital image from Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection has been published. Image number 15,000, “Dia dos de Mayo de 1810. En Madrid,” is one of eight hand-colored semicircular prints in the collection, and was designed to be mounted as a fan. Since its inception several years … Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Milestone
Today’s Providence Journal features an article about The Brown-Francis Family Papers, a collection which the Center for Digital Scholarship is in the process of scanning. The papers provide a unique perspective on early American life, and detail the activities of a colonial Rhode Island merchant family. 1,140 objects have been scanned to date, and all … The Brown-Francis Family Papers featured in The Providence Journal
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
The Harris Broadsides from the Harris Collection of Poetry and Plays, is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of American life, and includes poetry of every description, 18th and 19th century ballads, verse describing newsworthy events, poetic … New project released: Harris Broadsides
The BDH‘s Digitial Archive was recently featured in the Scout Report: Since 1891, the Brown Daily Herald has chronicled “political protest, athletic wins and losses, curricular changes, and students’ initiative.” Recently, Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and the Herald began working together to create this digital archive of the paper. On the site, visitors … Brown Daily Herald Digital Archive Featured in Scout Report
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
The Center for Digital Scholarship, with the support of the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program, is developing a suite of tools for exploring TEI-encoded texts using the SEASR software framework. SEASR provides a flexible, online environment in which to create and share research tools. The TEI tools for SEASR will enable scholars to parse … TEI and SEASR – Semantically rich tools for text exploration
