Projects
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The Silent Spring Soundscape
Created by Kelly Gray The Silent Spring Soundscape: Lessons in Listening to the Land combines immersive field recordings in environmental soundscapes, ArcGIS interactive mapping, and interactive lesson plans for the high school or college classroom to tell the history of Rachel Carson’s work, Silent Spring, and to learn to read the environmental silences in texts.
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Ælfric Online
Created by Chase Hockema Ælfric Online seeks to continue Ælfric’s mission of making doctrine and scripture accessible to a wider audience. The last complete translation of these homilies was Benjamin Thorpe’s in 1844 (first series; second series), and the language throughout is often contorted. Other Old English scholars have translated parts or all of certain homilies…
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World Travelers Story Maps
The following story maps provide insight into 17th and 18th travel narratives through textual extracts, mapping, and contextualization. They were created by DH certificate students with teaching and learning in mind. Impressions of South Africa: Tracking the Descriptions of Viscount Born in 1838 in what is now Northern Ireland, James Bryce is highly regarded as…
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18th Century Scotland, as Observed by Daniel Defoe
Created by Brianna A. Reisbeck 18th Century Scotland, as observed by Daniel Defoe focuses solely on “That Part of Great Britain Called Scotland,” the first letter in Defoe’s fourth volume of A Tour of Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, and, more specifically on changes to the ecology and to the physical and built…
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Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College
Created by Alexander D’Alisera Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College is an open-access digital catalog of the McMullen Museum of Art’s Tellalian Collection, a stunning assemblage of more than 30 late antique textiles from Egypt. Created with public access in mind, the project’s creator sought to provide a digital space in which anyone, regardless…
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A River in Time: Environmental Histories on the Neponset River
Created by Laura Clerx et al. Using maps and storytelling, A River in Time: Environmental Histories on the Neponset River invites viewers to engage with the Neponset River’s many pasts, from its prehuman history through the present moment. While this project servers a wide audience, the hope is that the Neponset’s environmental history orients the…