Projects

  • Khedival American Soldiers

    Khedival American Soldiers

    Crated by Victoria Oliviero Khedival American Soldiers is a comprehensive digital collection dedicated to preserving the works of 48 American Civil War veterans who served in the Egyptian Army between 1869 and 1879. These individuals ranged from explorers to engineers, from sixty-year-old veterans to twenty-year-old captains, and included both Union and Confederate affiliates. The website…

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  • Catholic Almanacs Database

    Catholic Almanacs Database

    Created by Yuchen Xiong Catholic Almanacs Database project serves as part of a larger, multi-year project BC’s Digital Scholarship Group has been working on. The overall goal is to digitize American Catholic almanacs in the mid-and late-nineteenth century by extracting data them, refining the data, and building a site that allows users to access it.…

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  • The Jerusalem Temple in the First Century C.E.

    The Jerusalem Temple in the First Century C.E.

    Created by Natalie Hill The Jerusalem Temple in the First Century C.E. is a 3D recreation of the Herodian Temple and Temple Mount, based on three scholars’ hypothesized floor plans and measurements for the Temple and its location on the Temple Mount. These three reconstructions allow for the analysis of differing hypotheses and demonstrate how…

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  • Charting First Encounters

    Charting First Encounters

    Created by Christian Egan Charting First Encounters maps twenty-three points where George Vancouver’s expedition encountered Indigenous peoples, communities, and constructions over two weeks in early May, 1792. Given the archival absence of textual Indigenous sources, Vancouver’s writings provide the first recorded account of Puget Sound’s native cultures. The project uses data extracted from chapters IV and…

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  • Seeing China Through Catholic American Eyes

    Seeing China Through Catholic American Eyes

    Created by Greta Rauch Seeing China Through Catholic Eyes is a text analysis project exploring how one Catholic newspaper, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, depicted the massive changes China underwent from the 1920s to the 1950s. This project gathered, processed, and analyzed hundreds of articles over decades using Natural Language Processing and Topic Modeling to…

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  • Dr. Knox and the Penny Blood: Dissecting the Dissector

    Dr. Knox and the Penny Blood: Dissecting the Dissector

    Created by Marry Ann Orfanos Dr. Knox and the Penny Blood: Dissecting the Dissector is a TEI based project that focuses on three contemporaneous primary sources: two joint documents published in a historical newspaper, the third a series of correspondence published in an esteemed medical and surgical journal. The aim of the project is to,…

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