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"This scene of fishermen casting their net in front of a moated fortress catered to a taste for picturesque and ancient architecture. Working on the smooth surface of an oak panel allowed Van Goyen to achieve a variety of painterly effects and enliven a limited color palette as he evoked crumbling masonry, rippling water, or cottony clouds. Although the artist studied medieval monuments in preparing such scenes, the castle shown here is imaginary, pieced together from both observation and fantasy." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436559?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&ft=jan+van+eyck&offset=40&rpp=20&pos=41
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Killer Entertainments displays 33 viral videos of military actions in the War on Terror shared between three viewing windows. In order to generate micro-narratives on political and economic dialogue, military activities, real persons, places, and video strategies, points of concern are taken from the recordings. By creating a network of common themes to stimulate discussion about the war, the project attempts to contextualize the videos. In addition to scholarly printing, references are obtained from numerous film, news, and government websites.
In order to explore what the project has to offer, visitors are encouraged to actively participate. Visitors acquire information from interactions through the mix of music, voice, and visual interactive structures. Be it terror, panic, excitement, adrenaline and calm, the raw video captures the full spectrum of human emotions. Viral videos encourage the viewer to bear witness through the sights caught on film and the sounds of gunfire, orders and profanity to war at it's most real form. The videos chosen for review are intentionally transient in nature and can be found on any variety of popular video sharing sites.
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This resource is an interactive map to Chicano art throughout different eras of art. It starts on a page with an enter button like a videogame and moves to a page that has 5 categories. They are "From Olmec to Mexica" "Frida, Diego, and the Mexican muralists" "Chicana/o Art" "The road to Mictlan" and "Nepantla Aesthetics". From each of those is a collection of topics relating to their category. They all feature a photo, date, time, artist when applicable, and a description.
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This resource is a collection of images with brief descriptions relating to the Mexican American musician from the 90's. The website is set up like a slide show and is controllable with the arrow keys. It features pictures of fan created art made after her early passing, the outfits that she created and wore during concerts, and some of her favorite things like her car and her Grammy from 1993.
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This project is a series of interactive maps and information about the journey of Lewis and Clark as an educational source. It includes interactive maps; links to scholarly outside sources regarding the subject and research; artwork. It provides insight to the excursion that Lewis and Clark took across Missouri as a support resource to the Lewis And Clark Historic Landscape Project
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This project is demonstration of the ways that the Indigenous American narrative is being repossessed in today’s time by combining Native Studies with Southern Studies, and a separation of the concept of the Removal Act as being a part of Native American culture. It includes links to scholarly outside sources; maps of where major Native American tribes and their territories; removal routes; etc. This project also displays materials that give a better understanding or overview, such as maps of where tribes were located, and the routes in which they may have been forced off of their land. There also appears to be an article that leads to several sources relating to the subject at hand, including Google Books and other articles from Native American authors.
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The project covers the void in written content by interpreting the texts, collating them with others, and providing search indexes, as King John's fine rolls are still in print editions along with the european parliament records up to 1272. Within a hyperlinked list, the key references are arranged chronologically, allowing for the simple location and search of particular years.Hyperlinks for Zoomify-enhanced facsimile manuscript images are placed at the top, and duplicated in the transcribed text, until a fine roll is opened from the list. This structure provides convenient access to a wide variety of content formats for the user.
The material is provided in a minimaliic sdesign, interspersed with just a few footnotes to include the logic behind the precise date of an entry, reference to another document, or judgment on an editorial translation, since the original document was in Latin. As a multimedia archive, the Henry III Fine Rolls Project delivers an important service, expanding analysis through different index search tools not present in the print media. However, the project is, of course, closely related to the printing activities of the rolls.
-Sofia Trushina
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The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project is a digital preservation of the works of the actor and founder of the Dulwich College in London, Edward Alleyn, and his father-in-law, Philip Henslowe. The works that this site aim to preserve, are the personal and public documents either belonged to or created by Edward Alleyn.
Many of these files were found in the Dulwich College’s Archive, but a good portion of them were either missing pages, were torn up, or just weren’t legible. With this being the case, documents on this site are displayed either in the form of a photo of the original work, or a rewritten digital copy, sometimes both are offered. Manuscripts and articles are available to view, as well as personal letters from Alleyn. There’s even various entries of his diary found within this vast collection.
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The Records of Early English Drama, or "REED" Online, is a digital collaboration website between a wide variety of professors, focuses on early forms of entertainment in England. Primarily focused on theatre works, such as drama and music, set before 1642, before Puritans had all theatres in England closed down. The collaborative site is dedicated to finding and preserving all evidence of early entertainment.
Here you can find countless different documents of all kinds, from manuscripts to pamphlets, down to images of props and foods used at the time. You can even find documents highlighting criminal activity during certain theatrical events.
Even if a particular document doesn’t do you much good in terms of research, each item is accompanied by an in-depth description and context from a number of the site’s collaborators.
Unaware of how to get started? No worries, as REED Online offers plenty of tips on how to start your research, right at the home menu!
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This is a public lecture video conducted by Renee Ater who talks about the processes and challenges of creating a digital humanities project pertaining to how we should put together project having to do with slavery.
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This resource shows how the slave revolt in Jamaica happened and the events afterward. It also shows an interactive map of what Jamaica looked like in the 16th century.
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EMED is an anthology of plays written during London’s first period of commercial theater from 1576-1642. EMED includes some of the 403 plays that still exist from this time that are not Shakespeare's plays. Lastly EMED provides an extensive amount of information about each of the plays and allows you to download each of them. Some are even in their regular spelling as well as regularized forms. -Kelsey Rhodes
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This is a collaboration project between a professor and his students where they take various historic poems of John Milton and put it all in one database for us to read. This database contains hyperlinked annotations, research guidelines to make researching easier, introductions, a search bar on the top right. At the bottom of the home page, there is copyright information along with a table of contents for the project itself. There are numerous of poems transcribed by the students and professors that date back to 1645. This project displays poetry from the early 1600’s. This project improves anybody's vocabulary. Nate Rogers
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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.
