Depicting Glory Depicting Glory is a digital project that presents a group of rare Chinese objects drawn from across the Brown University Library. Most of these items date from the late Qing dynasty in the 19th century, though one item is a set of maps published in Taiwan around 1960. Although the items were created … Depicting Glory
Keeper Project The Keeper Project is a public art and education initiative that seeks to revise the popular imagery around hip hop music and culture, which almost exclusively elevates male voices and attitudes while overlapping and erasing those of women and girls. The Keeper Project offers two primary interventions for the problem of gender inequity … Keeper 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
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
Latin American Travelogues This project provides a selection of digitized Latin American travelogues, largely from the 19th century. Currently focused on Brazil, the works are linked to critical essays produced by undergraduate students enrolled in courses on Latin American history. Latin American Travelogues is a project of the History Department. Contributors to this project include James Green.
Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence A searchable gazetteer of 16th c. Florence to accompany an electronic publication about renaissance Florence R. Burr Litchfield has been researching the transition of Florentine civil society of the Republic to the court society of the Medici Grand Duchy as seen through the prism of the changing urban social … Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence
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)
