Digital Humanities: Resources

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people arriving in America, the York Times Magazine created an entire issue to exploring the history of slavery and mapping the ways in which it has touched nearly every aspect of contemporary life in the United States. This interactive website exhibits the pieces features in the issue and links to resources and curriculum materials on the topic (opens a new tab).

Researchers at Berkeley created a New Deal archive and interactive map of buildings and places that were created by the WPA, as a result of the New Deal. Users can search for artists, buildings by state and city, and learn about New Deal sites (opens a new tab).

This is an open-access electronic resource for the study of avant-garde aesthetic periodicals of the British fin de siècle. Edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, the yellow nineties allow users to search and analyze physical features of the content. Full-text access is available of "The Yellow Book" and "The Pagan Review" with more anticipated (opens a new tab).

A collaborative project between State University of New York at Geneseo, The Thoreau Society, and The Walden Woods Project has exhibits on Thoreau scholars, a community of readers able to comment on the margins of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", along with a full fluid-text edition of Walden that uses the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (opens a new tab).

The University of South Carolina digitized the Green Book and made it viewable and searchable as a digital object. Users are also about to explore a map that compiles over 1500 listings from the Green Book (opens a new tab).

Johanna Drucker created and published her Intro to Digital Humanities course online. In this class, she lays out the basics of Digital Humanities with the goal that students will create their own Digital Humanities Project from beginning to end.

Jim Casey shares his course about the data side of Digital Humanities from Spring 2019. There are readings, categories, and classwork examples. This site also has a great list of datasets collection and repositories.

Scott Klein of ProPublica, created this helpful guide for users to create a great news application, data style guides and data bulletproofing guide. All of these guides are under the Creative Commons license (Opens a new tab).

Miram Posner has a series of tutorials posted on her blog that range from how to use Tableau Public, building a website using HTML and CSS to sound editing (Opens a new tab).