Fox Point Oral History project Oral histories, transcripts, photos, and other materials related to Fox Point, Providence, RI. Since 2008, Brown University students have worked to preserve and present the cultural heritage of Providence’s Fox Point neighborhood through oral history interviews and public programs. This site allows visitors to hear audio interviews, read transcripts of … Fox Point Oral History project
Freedom Now! An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University Archival material and essays about the Civil Rights Movement and the Brown/Tougaloo relationship, collected and presented by students from Brown and Tougaloo. During 2002, Susan Smulyan and James Campbell, together with students and colleagues at Brown and its sister school Tougaloo College did research … Freedom Now! An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University
Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento A mid-19th century panorama painted in England, and illustrations from British, French, and German newspapers (c. 1850-1885) regarding Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), the military leader of the Italian Risorgimento, and his career. The Garibaldi Panorama and the Risorgimento project provides a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the … Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento
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
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.
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
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
Opening the Archives The Opening the Archives Project is an ambitious undertaking organized by Brown University and the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Paraná, Brazil with the support of the U.S. National Archive and Record Administration and the Brazilian National Archive to systematically digitize and index tens of thousands of declassified documents in the U.S. government … Opening the Archive
Pico’s 900 Theses A digital edition of the 900 Theses of Pico de la Mirandola (“Conclusiones Nongentae publicae disputandae”, Rome 1486), published in Latin and English, with an annotation feature available to scholars who are part of the Pico Project. The project, which is part of Massimo Riva’s research on publishing, using and teaching with … Pico’s 900 Theses
Romanian Love Charms A structural analysis of Romanian love charms. Sanda Golopentia had constructed a corpus of Romanian love charms on the Brown mainframe over 10 years ago. This was implemented by Allen Renear using Waterloo Script, and was used to typeset a book analyzing the love charms. Since then, she has been expanding the … Romanian Love Charms
