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The Salem Witchcraft Trials site is primarily composed of edited primary source documents regarding the Salem Witch Trials. The documents are listed on the page and include an introduction to the events of the trial which is continued onto another page. This offers a general narrative of the events that can be found in a textbook. “The primary materials are not organized in any specific way and one is easily finished clicking on every link in the site”. “The materials of the site include a detailed (but plain) typed chronology of the events of the trial. Included are the works of Cotton Mather but there is no original scan, merely a typed edited edition of one of his major works. There is a scan of an original death warrant that does offer some sense of historical feel to the site but it is barely readable. There are some good maps of Salem and witch trials in Colonial America. Also included is a link to the complete Salem Witchcraft Papers that are part of the UVA etext program. This site is primarily aimed at a pre-collegiate environment offering tools for both the student and the instructor. The student can learn from such games as "You're Accused" where they have to make choices from the perspective of an accused witch. Another game is "Salem Witchcraft Jeopardy" where they choose dollar amounts and answer questions that increase in difficulty as the dollar amount increases. For the instructor, there are teaching tools such as "Causes" "Why it Ended" and "Lessons" which address what we can learn from the trials. The Salem Witchcraft Trials page is part of a larger project focusing on famous trials throughout history including such examples as the trials of Jesus, Galileo, Lizzie Borden, the Scopes "Monkey Trial", all the way up to O.J. Simpson and the 9/11 trials.”
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Mujeres Talk is “an online, interdisciplinary, edited, and moderated forum for the circulation and discussion of original research, commentary, and creative work in brief and diverse formats such as essays (500-1500 words), multimedia presentations, and short video. They focus on Chicana, Latina, and Native American women’s work. However, they continue to welcome work from allies and diverse racial and ethnic authors within and outside of these categories. As a forum, they host conversations on important topics and publish single-author or collaborative work. Though they publish under the sign of “Mujeres,” they invite authors of all genders to contribute to the project. All posts represent the views of individual authors. All submissions are reviewed by two members of the Editorial Board to ensure that they are appropriate for the venue, offer an original and interesting perspective, cite relevant research where necessary, and meet the length requirements. Mujeres Talk also publishes simultaneous cross-posts with peer sites provided the essay, multimedia or creative work appears on both sites on the same day and both sites agree to note simultaneous publication. They publish original work, written for the site, and occasionally republish work relevant to their vision and goals from other online and print venues.
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This is a database where historians teamed up with social experts to help improve our knowledge about African Americans who fought in the Civil War. This database allows people to look deeper into the history of each individual that took part in such a historic time of American History. With this kind of information, African American genealogists are able to conjoin ancestors to the soldiers during the Civil War. This page claims that it constantly updates users with resources because there is so much to learn about this time period.. It has a discussions page where everybody can request help, discuss any bugs they encounter on the database and an area where people can hold a general discussion. It also has loads of transcribed images and documents such as service records of African Americans. This database constantly is uploading primary resources to keep everybody up-to-date with more information that these historians and social scientists find. There is also a “classify” tab which I believe is an interactive activity the database has. Basically you are given a photo of an actual copy of a company descriptive book, which is a card given to each of the soldier’s rifles. It is basically a transcribing page for viewers to complete. This database transcribes military records of African Americans during the civil war. It expands our knowledge of the civil war by giving us interactive maps and a database that allows us to do research on the soldiers that took part of this war. This database also gives us insight on what the soldiers did post-war by looking through various censuses. Overall, this database makes a strong effort to expand our knowledge on the social and political impact African Americans had during the Civil War.
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Comprised of 7 distinct projects some including a digital edition of the 1561 Agas woodcut map, an anthology of old spellings, the "London Parish" project, and a mapography of early modern city maps. A few of these projects show an early map of London, an encyclopedia of people, places, and terms, and an anthology of old spelling. These projects help people better understand how different London was back then as compared to modern-day.
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A collection of stories and experiences of the black community that build Black Broadway. At the end of the 19th century and for the first half of the 20th century despite segregation, D.C.’s historic Black greater U Street community prospered and built a self-reliant economic, social, civic, and cultural existence. This influential Black U Street neighborhood of extraordinary achievers birthed D.C.’s Black Renaissance and served as a prominent symbol of black culture and sophistication amid racial and political tension in America.
The project includes a map of the important places on and around U Street such as theaters, resturants, and houses of famous authors, musician, and historians. A photo and description in included with each building. There are also news articles and events held. Lastly the project includes video recordings of people's experiences on U Street. -Kelsey Rhodes
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Highlights the Civil Rights Movement and how Rosa Parks influenced and sparked discussion of treating blacks as second-class citizens.
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This database addresses the need to make information about young black female characters in literature accessible. It contains a comprehensive list of literature featuring young, strong black female characters, as well as a blog where readers can publish their thoughts and assessments of the novels.
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This source is an online syllabus for two professors at Johns Hopkins University who both share a passion for the black women in history. On the home page, one will find a handful of books emphasizing black females required for the curriculum as well as workshops and seminars held for the class. The side of the page is where a dropdown menu is placed that transports visitors to different links to websites also geared toward black history and the prominent females in it. Other tabs on this menu offer a brief overview of how to cite sources while another gives information about the two professors behind the curriculum.
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The Women Writer’s Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
It has graphs, charts, and provides documentation of methods, including editorial principles and schema customization.
It helps to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.
Description by Avery Markle.
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This is a database dedicated to live theatre before William Shakespeare, specifically looking at the era when Queen Elizabeth ruled (16th century). The site includes a blog section to promote events and resources for learning about theatre before Shakespeare and an archive of these blog posts. It also includes an about section, an events section, a media section (including photos, videos, and workshops), a plays and materials section (including a timeline and a “live tweets” section), a links section for other resources, and an index of posts. This database is not just a collection of information, it seems to be designed to initiate conversation, between blog posts that can be commented on, and different workshops that are being promoted. There seems to be a sense of community that extends outside of the project. - Olivia Nicolazzo
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This database features a collection of Claude McKay's early poetry from 1911-1922 along with some from 1940. It allows viewers to read a variety of Claude Mckay's work along with criticism on his pieces,it also shows the connection between his work and his personal experience / beliefs.
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This database provides a list of the Poet Laureates, a link to the Latino Book Review Podcast, reviews of Latino poetry books, interviews with poets, links to related databases, and essays about Latinx culture.
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The Equal Justice Initiative brings up discussion of racial injustice and truth, creates a digital experience for wide audience
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A collection of resources related to the life and times of Christopher Marlowe. Family trees, trees of associates, digitized copies of some works, some related documents, discussion of conspiracy theories related to Marlowe, and quizzes about his life.
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This is a collection of plays in England from the late 1500s to the mid 1600s. Specifically, this database combines information from various sources during this time period to make a list of plays that have been lost to history. It has a “wiki” comprised of the list of plays, and these plays can be sorted by the year, title, Dramatists (playwright), Auspices (venues and theatre companies), as well as category tags and documents. This source allows users to browse various plays and documents surrounding these plays to gain a better understanding of live theatre during this time period. The pages describing each play include a table of contents, any historical records that mention the play, a description of where the play was performed, what the play’s genre is, a summary of the play, references that other works have made to this play, any reviews of the play from those who saw it, and a works cited section. - Olivia Nicolazzo
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This website contains a reading list that is meant to highlight the voices of black female children and adolescents, all the books and films recommended revolve around a black female protagonist and their interactions with the world. By design, the website has tabs across the top leading visitors to different sections of the database. A tab dedicated to academic conferences and events promoting young women of color in literature is offered for those who are interested while another tab is dedicated to the creator. A personalized tab near the far right is dedicated to asking individuals to submit blog posts for a chance of being published, hoping to promote as many black females as possible.
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An interactive map of Early Modern London based on the Agas Map. Contains an encyclopedia of Gazetteers, a personography, placeography, orgography, articles on relevant historical topics, glossary of terms, a bibliography, and collections of digitized historical documents. The map resource collects these resources into a visually interactive form with overlays for different types of locational and geographical breakdown, with individual locations bringing up relevant information to that place.
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The Lost Plays Database was created so that scholars could have a place to go to share information about lost plays that exist and a place where scholars could then discuss more about these plays. This database has many different alphabetized pages that are organized by different sections of which plays can fall into. Along with that, there is a lot of information about where the plays may have come from and references to them as well, once you click on one play in particular. There are pages upon pages with many different types of plays stemming from the early 1620’s and ending in the late 1770’s. This database’s goal is to give people a resource where they can find plays that have been lost and or forgotten about as well a place to discuss these plays.
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This project is made by De Montfort University and numerous other contributors. The website’s main purpose is to provide information about the Rose Theater create an audio/visual reconstruction of the building. The cite walks the reader through the process of construction the theater through 6 modules, starting with the main enterances and ending with John Cholmley’s adjacent house. It does this through a series of articles, videos, and 360 images of the reconstructed Rose Theater.
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It’s a database that maps out police violence across the United states. It has a variety of interactive maps, so you can choose what information you want to compare. You can compare police violence between states or cities. You can view police scorecards where police departments all over the United States have been given a grade. It also features a yearly police violence report where you can view people who have been killed by police in 2020, where it shows the reason police were called, the race, gender of the people etc. It gives a variety of data on how many people were killed by police for nonviolent crimes, traffic violations, and mental health crises that the public wouldn’t normally be aware of.
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A product of Douglas O. Linder, The Salem Witchcraft Trials cite is a smaller cite on a bigger topic; famous trials throughout history. Other entries on the cite include Jesus, Galileo, and even cases such as O.J Simpson. The cite includes resources like maps of Salem at the time, warrants of arrests, biographies, and the timeline of event. This cite gives a clear understanding of the Salem Witch Trials by providing numerous sources and links
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The Black Gotham archive was created to give people a deeper understanding of what black people’s lives were like in New York within the nineteenth century. One of the points of this project is for the author to share parts of her family members' stories. So, within this project, there are stories about the draft riots that took place, stories about who certain people were with information about their lives, there is a family tree, and overall this archive is full of stories about what life was like in the nineteenth century.
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Country of Origin: Egypt, Cairo Museum
