The American Philosophical Society has digitized eight handwritten volumes of Declaration of Independence signer Dr. Benjamin’s Rush‘s “Travels Through Life.” J.L. Bell has the story at Boston 1775. A taste: Here’s another source on the Revolution recently digitized: eight handwritten volumes of Dr....
Here is Anne Buress at The Harvard Gazette: In a recent virtual curatorial discussion, Houghton librarian John Overholt took an item from the Colonial North America collections to share with his audience. Rather than highlighting a letter from John Hancock or a...
Rowan University students are digitizing artifacts from the Miss America Organization in Atlantic City. What a cool public history project! Here is R. Kenneth Burns at WHYY: Students at Rowan University are going through a treasure chest of American history...
Here is Jeff Cooper at the blog of the American Antiquarian Society: For the past fifteen years, New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH), a project of the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, has sought to locate, digitize, transcribe, and publish online New...
Donald Trump’s current budget proposal will eliminate government funding for the humanities. This means that local communities and American citizens will need to come up with other ways to fund programs like this: The Japanese American History Digitization Project at...
The American Antiquarian Society‘s Printers’ File contains information on 6000 people who were involved in the early American book trade. Emily Wells, a staff member at the AAS and an incoming College of William and Mary graduate student, will be...
Harvard is digitizing its archival and manuscript collections related to 17th and 18th century North America. From the website of the Colonial North American Project: When complete, the project will make available to the world digitized images of all known […]
This is the argument of Portland Community College librarian Meredeth Farkas in a piece at The New Republic.Farkas chides outgoing Librarian of Congress James Billington for, among other things, not modernizing the Library and bringing it fully into the digital world.She writes:President...
This looks like a wonderful project. It appears to be the brainchild of Zach Hutchins of Colorado State University. Â Here is what it is all about. Transcribing Early American Manuscript Sermons, or TEAMS, is a collaborative scholarly effort to make...
435,000 maps in all. Â What a time to be a historian!From Mental Floss: Thanks in part to a grant from the Knight Foundation, the NYPL is currently in the process of digitizing their extensive map collection. So far, the institution...
There is a lot of great digitization work going on these days. The Washington Post is running an article on efforts underway at the University of South Florida to digitize St. Augustine parish documents dating back to 1594. Here is […]
This looks like a great opportunity for recent master’s degree graduates. There is only a short time left to apply for the National Digital Stewardship Residency program. The deadline is April 5th, 2013! Interested applicants can apply to the program...
