Tuesday, September 13th Overview: The digital humanities is a
project-oriented field, and it’s quite collaborative in
character. With these two things in mind, we’ll spend most of
our first lab session reviewing some example digital humanities
projects, looking for some others, and asking what—for our own
purposes this term—we can learn from these examples, especially
as you proceed toward modeling your own projects. That said, if
what’s below seems like a lot, then no worries. This session
will certainly not be the only time we review or reference these
digital projects. It is merely intended as a survey to get our
feet wet. Reading Due: Prior to Tuesday’s lab, please thoroughly
review and take notes on at least two of the following projects:
(1) Hypercities, (2) Mapping Du Bois, (3) Mapping the City in
Film, (4) The Map of Early Modern London, (5) T-RACES, and (6)
the Seattle Band Map. As well as one of the following: (1) The
Bracero History Archive, (2) Chronicling America, (3) Public
Secrets, (4) Voices o