Digital Sources
The Gilder Lehrman Collection comprises more than 87,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera. It documents the political, social, and economic history of the United States from 1493 through the twentieth century.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
PEW Research Center. A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. It does not take policy positions.
Texas General Land Office Archive. Since 2000, the GLO Archives and Records program has digitized millions of documents and maps, making these historical treasures accessible to the public.
Borderlands Archives Cartography. BAC, is a project that features a digital map showcasing the locations of U.S.-Mexico border newspapers. It records the geographic spots of periodicals published from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The goal of BAC is to locate, map, and facilitate access to borderland periodicals, allowing to visualize newspapers from both sides of the border to better understand the dynamics of the region and its communities before and after it became a division line. BAC aims to broaden our understanding of borders and enhance access to these materials, promoting various forms of research and community engagement.
United Fronteras. A digital record that compiles a collection of active and inactive works that leverage digital components to document the borderlands from various perspectives, including literature, archives, art, oral histories, music, from pre-colonial times to the twenty-first century.
African Digital Humanities. Based at the University of Kansas, African DH@KU presents opportunities for engaged discussions that center on African perspectives and projects in the digital humanities. Our programs include an annual African Digital Humanities Symposium and regular Digital Indabas and events that explore the intersection of traditional humanistic inquiry in Africa and digital media. Brian co-leads this initiative with KU professor of African & African-American Studies James Yékú.
The Digital Florentine Codex (DFC) is an enhanced digital edition that unlocks this encyclopedic content and makes the texts and images searchable. The initiative to create the DFC started in 2016 and was realized with the support of the Seaver Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and the J. Paul Getty Trust. Digirati, a digital consultancy and software company, designed and built the DFC using a bespoke version of Canvas Panel—a viewer built according to International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standards—which delivers both images and texts. The DFC was launched on October 26, 2023. This collaborative project was led by Kim N. Richter, managed by Alicia Maria Houtrouw, and conceived with the project’s co-heads, Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Kevin Terraciano. For more information about the members of the team, please see Credits.
Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship. Through sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships with academic libraries worldwide, KU’s Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship (IGEL) promotes knowledge exchange, professional development, innovation, and collaborative research. These efforts enhance academic libraries’ collective ability to address global challenges. Brian serves as Director of IGEL.
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Este sitio web ha sido conformado con materiales diversos relativos a la historia de los pueblos originarios durante el siglo XIX mexicano.
NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging the gaps between technology, the humanities, and social science. We encourage scholars to use digital and computational methods to explore critical social and cultural challenges, with a focus on social justice, ethics, and equity.
Public Digital Humanities Institute (PDHI). The PDHI brought together teams of academics and community partners from 12 community-based digital humanities projects for an intensive week of digital humanities training and discussion at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas. The PDHI was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. It was organized and carried out by KU’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH), under the direction of co-PI’s Brian Rosenblum and professor of communication studies Dave Tell.