News, Projects, Resources

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 […]

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Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)

TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]

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Resource: (In)Visible Architects of Freedom Digital Archive

This database designed for students and educators highlights primary sources about the growth of the Black American community in Lënapehòkink, now called Philadelphia, from the 1600s to the 1800s. It includes petitions, newspaper articles, letters, objects, friendship albums, and more. See full post.

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Resource: Old Toronto: Historical Itinerary Planner

A tool for explorers, travellers, and anyone curious about the city that once was — connecting Toronto’s living streets to more than 37,000 archival photographs spanning over two centuries, from the City of Toronto Archives and the Toronto Public Library. See full post.

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Resource: DHCC Project Self-Assessment Tool (v1.0)

This self-assessment tool is intended to support Digital Humanities practitioners, researchers, technicians, curators, software engineers, and related professionals seeking to embed environmental sustainability into their project design, delivery, and reporting. In line with the EPSRC AREA framework for responsible research and innovation, the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition recommends using the tool to reflect on how […]

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Resource: Timeline of African American Music

The Timeline of African American Music represents decades of scholarship conducted and led by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby, a pioneer in the study of African American music, as well as the contributions of numerous scholars. From the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music, the timeline is a detailed view of the evolution of African […]

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Resource: DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI

This workshop guides humanities scholars through the emerging landscape of agentic coding—building functional tools and applications through collaboration with AI, rather than writing code from scratch. We begin with Claude Artifacts for rapid prototyping and Claude Code Web for browser-based development, then transition to the Claude Code CLI for the remainder of the week. Participants […]

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Resource: Wyrm – Citation Network Explorer

Recently, I’ve had a number of students wrestling with the challenges of scoping a field, pulling together a literature review, and trying to determine how different pieces might be in conversation with each other. I used to sometimes sit students down with Ed Summer’s old ‘Etudier’ package which was great; but Google Scholar doesn’t really […]