The Valley of the Shadow project is a digital archive containing over 12,000 documents used in a comparative historical analysis between Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania before, during and after the U.S. Civil War: https://valley.lib.virginia.edu/.  This digital archive contains resources that allow researchers to compare the two agriculturally-based communities that, while physically only […]

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Our Digital Humanities course recently undertook a metadata exercise.  The professor assigned us a document Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba by A. K. Wollstonecroft.  It is a handwritten and hand-drawn manuscript from the early1800s. In a two-person breakout group, we attempted to assign metadata to it.  I wondered if […]

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My impressions about the Digital Humanities filed continues to grow the more I become educated about it.  The basic core value of DH is the integration of digital spaces and technology with studies and research into the humanities fields.  Examples of digital technologies include blogging, exhibits, websites and podcasting platforms for online presentation of research, […]

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For my final project, I recently completed three digital exhibits – Civil War Draft Riots – Digital Maps for my Digital Humanities course (HUM 502) at the University of Southern Mississippi.  The learning curve was minimal, as I had done an exhibit for the midterm, “Murders in Mississippi.”   This exhibit is still on the same […]

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For my final project in Digital Humanities (HUM 502), I am going to put together exhibits for some of the research I have been doing on my history dissertation.  I am working on a series of riots that occurred as a result of the military draft in the Union during the American Civil War.  I […]

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Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project Letter from John B. Nevett to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; February 12, 1862 Our digital humanities class recently began transcribing documents to get a feel for the process of transcription.  We are working with the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi digital humanities project.  These […]

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In recent decades, researchers and archivists have turned to crowdsourcing as means to get large collections of historic archival material digitized.  This has exponentially increased the amount of research resources that are easier to find and use because digitized collections are available online.  Someday, it might be possible to complete an entire historic research project […]

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Making Digital Humanities (DH) projects more accessible seems to be increasingly trending.  People without disabilities often just take it for granted that “everything” is seemingly accessible if it is digital and online.  It really takes the effort of stepping out of your own shoes to try and imagine what the digital (and for that matter, […]

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After Googling myself, I found that I had a very minimum presence on the World Wide Web.  I would rate myself as having an overall low profile online.  There are some other persons named Brian Valimont, one who is a PhD engineer in Florida and another with a Caring Bridge website, but these guys are […]

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