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The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 brought to bear many issues of representation and response that have recently been in the media’s eye in the wake of the tragedies in Haiti and Chile. William Dana Reynolds, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, documented his experience after arriving in Yokohama Bay on September 9, 1923. His ship survived the The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection

The Brown-Francis Family Papers featured in The Providence Journal

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

New project released: Harris Broadsides

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

Brown Daily Herald Digital Archive Featured in Scout Report

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

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