During World War II, the US Army administered more than 200 surveys to over half a million American troops to discover what they thought and how they felt about the conflict and their military service. The surviving collection of studies is now accessible to the public for the first time at The American Soldier in […]
This digital anthology is an open-access resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in African American poetry, published roughly between 1870 and 1928. As of January 2025, we believe there are more than 4000 poems collected in digital form on this site. The full-text materials on this site can be accessed in several different ways […]
Our take: The Prison Data Explorer (https://tpride.org/projects_prisondata/#home) is a project of Trans Pride Initiative, a Texas nonprofit that corresponds with trans and queer people in prison, mostly in Texas but also in other state and federal systems. The site turns thousands of letters into live, interactive charts that show correspondence over time and the demographics […]
An open-source photographic showcase and browser lab for regularized RGB decorrelation stretch. It includes a searchable database of 675 photographs, including 177 textiles, a 91-target painted-surface guide, and an open community photo collection. The public source repository contains the portable app and processing tools. See full post.
Neruda Archives is an independent cultural archive dedicated to historical letters, documents and traces of correspondence, mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The physical originals are privately held, while selected records and research materials are made publicly accessible. See full post.
The Babel Nexus Index is a free, visual way to explore the great public-domain books — the classics whose copyright has expired, so anyone can read them. Instead of a search box and a flat list, it lays knowledge out as a map of connected rooms: each room is a subject, each book sits on […]
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the most extensively excavated Roman-period archaeological sites of the Middle East. For more than a decade an American-led team revealed the ancient site, taking thousands of photographs in the process. Among images of artefacts and buildings are many which incidentally recorded images of the people who did […]
An interactive visualization tracing enslaved people forcibly migrated from U.S. states into Texas between 1800 and 1870 — reconstructed from the voter registration records of 1867–1870, in which more than 50,000 of the 140,073 Texans who registered are identified as freedmen. See full post.
THANADOS is a Digital Humanities web portal for archaeologically and anthropologically investigated burials and their digital dissemination. It is a platform for hosting any thematically relevant datasets that the authors want to offer as Open Data in a standardised form. The basic dataset consists of the results of the THANADOS project Several other projects that […]
Editors’ Summary: Now live from Reveal Digital, a newly digitized archive brings to light the legacy of Rollerena, a roller-skating queer icon, disco fixture, and dedicated AIDS activist. Published as part of the HIV, AIDS, and the Arts collection, this digital resource chronicles the evolution of her public persona through a rich assemblage of article […]
