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Italian Shadows (Mellon Publication Project)
Written by Brown University Italian Studies scholar, Massimo Riva, Italian Shadows conceives of an archaeology of virtual reality through a set of unique optical devices from the pre-digital age. Focusing on four curious pieces of analog media—including Casanova’s voyeuristic polemoscope (or jealousy glass); an eighteenth century peep show box, the Mondo Novo; the Great Belzoni’s Aggrescopius, … Italian Shadows (Mellon Publication Project)
Crystal Palace project
Crystal Palace project The New York Crystal Palace exposition was America’s first world’s fair. Exhibitors from around the world showed off their latest machinery, consumer products, and raw materials. The catalog of the 1853 New York Crystal Palace listed most of the items on display and indicated where they might be found. The Crystal Palace … Crystal Palace project
1968: The Whole World Was Watching Website
1968: The Whole World Was Watching Website 1968: The Whole World Was Watching is an oral history website developed in collaboration with students at South Kingstown High School. 1968: The Whole World Was Watching is an educational resource for secondary school students and teachers as well as for scholarly research on the period. Members of … 1968: The Whole World Was Watching Website
Boccaccio’s Decameron
Boccaccio’s Decameron The Decameron Web was begun in 1994 as a participatory hypertext project used to teach the Decameron. In 1997, STG encoded the text of the Decameron in SGML, and delivered it via a search engine. The Decameron consists of a hundred stories in Italian, told from the point of view of ten young … Boccaccio’s Decameron
Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 The Reynolds family, traveling aboard the steamship “Taiyo Maru,” survive a tsunami and arrive on the scene of the 1923 Kanto earthquake disaster. This project, done in collaboration with students of Modern Japanese History, features photographs and ephemera, documents the destruction to Yokohama, and serves as a unique travelogue. Great … Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
Modernist Journals Project
Modernist Journals Project A digital research collection focusing on Modernist journals and magazines, together with essays, introductions, and biographical sketches. The Modernist Journals Project publishes fully searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping the modes of literature and art that came to be called “modernist”. Focusing on materials … Modernist Journals Project
MonArch: Monastic Archaeology
MonArch: Monastic Archaeology An online publication of the excavation of the medieval monastery of St. Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France. Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines have been excavating the medieval monastery of St. Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France since 1982. They have been investigating forms of digital publication that will make it easy to link spatial data … MonArch: Monastic Archaeology