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Project: Kelmscott Chaucer Online | William Morris

The Kelmscott Chaucer Online allows you to explore what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book ever produced. The website contains all 87 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, as well as the 18 frames, 14 borders, and 26 decorative words designed by William Morris for their final project together published in 1896. This […]

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Project: Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities is an interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture. The goals of this project are threefold:  This project arose out of a desire to make Black digital and public humanities projects more visible to other practitioners and the public.  […]

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Project: Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s

The information in the dataset is extracted from newspapers across the region of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles, for the purpose of this dataset, begin with the Virgin Islands, extend south to Barbados, Grenada, and Tobago, and circle west towards Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (see fig. 1). Researchers knowledgeable about Caribbean history will recognize […]