Projects
- 3D Modeling
- Data Visualization
- Database
- Digital Collection
- Exhibit
- GIS/Mapping
- Media
- Network Analysis
- Pedagogy
- TEI
- Text Analysis
- Tools
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Clara Bromley: Atlantic Adventuress or Imperial Intruder?
Created by Emily Dupuis Clara Bromley: Atlantic Adventuress or Imperial Intruder? explores Clara Fitzroy Kelly Bromley’s 1853 journey around the Caribbean, North America, Mexico, and South America. Using text analysis tools, it critically examines her travel narrative focusing on her live reality and her blindness to or downplaying of slavery and oppression. The tools used,…
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Print Sermons and Sermon Notes
Created by Abigail Hill Encoding Cotton Mather’s Election Sermon is a transcription and TEI encoding of two versions of a sermon given by Cotton Mather in May 1690: an auditor’s note and a published version. The encoding prioritizes script choices made in the handwritten version, typographical choices made in the print version, Biblical references in both,…
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Everyday Empires
Created by Mia Swenson Everyday Empires, a proof-of-concept project, envisions maritime life and industry in early modern London through the diary of John “Ramblin’ Jack” Cremer. It offers a look at how Britain’s maritime economy shaped the lives of its citizens throughout the eighteenth century. As the locations on the map will suggest, the early…
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Saida: A City’s Urban History through its Inscriptions
Created by Khalil Sawan Saida: A City’s Urban History through its Inscriptions explores the history of Saida’s urban history by deciphering and analysing the historic inscriptions found on and in the old city’s historical buildings. The majority of inscriptions are door inscriptions found on the entrances of mosques, hammams, cafes, sufi lodges, and even residential…
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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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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…