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By Dana Wheeles on February 26, 2013
[Cross-posted at juxtasoftware.org] Every now and then I like to browse the project list at DHCommons.org, just to get an idea of what kind of work is being done in digital scholarship around the world. This really paid off recently, when I stumbled upon Digital Thoreau, an engaging and well-structured site created by a group from SUNY-Geneseo. This [...]
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By Emma Schlosser on February 20, 2013
This chromolithograph, produced in 1880, depicts the 1863 Chattanooga Campaign of the Civil War. After a series of successful attacks led by U.S. Grant on November 23-24, the Federals would hold the “Gateway to the Lower South” until the end of the War. For more Civil War artwork, check out the Library of Congress Civil [...]
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By Emma Schlosser on February 4, 2013
Now that football season is officially over, we can look forward to enjoying America’s pastime. In honor of African American History Month, here’s a photograph of Morris Brown College’s baseball team, circa 1899 or 1900. Courtesy of the Daniel Murray Collection from the Library of Congress.
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By Dana Wheeles on November 29, 2012
From the Pageant of America collection at the New York Public Library, NINES offers this glimpse into the study of Fireside Poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and the “Desk upon which Snow-Bound and other poems were written.”
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By Dana Wheeles on October 22, 2012
To accompany this week’s image, NINES Fellow Elizabeth Fox assembled all five copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address into one comparison set in Juxta Commons and collated them to see how they differ. Use the embed window below to peruse a heat map of this collation, with the Nicolay Copy as the base text. [...]
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By Emma Schlosser on October 10, 2012
After hearing an NPR interview on Columbus Day with Timothy Egan, author of Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, I decided to share a particularly striking example of Curtis’ work. Curtis’ portraits, taken at the beginning of the twentieth century, document and commemorate the lives and [...]
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By Dana Wheeles on September 11, 2012
John Bunyan’s allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come (1678) was an extraordinarily popular work of religious literature, even through the nineteenth century. This advertisement from the Library of Congress’ American Time Capsule Collection, invites visitors to see a panoramic exhibition of the famous religious narrative, and promises [...]
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By Dana Wheeles on August 28, 2012
In honor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, this week, we’ve chosen to showcase this satirical drawing of Abraham Lincoln after his nomination as a Republican presidential candidate in 1860. According to the summary provided by the Library of Congress, The artist contrasts Lincoln’s modest posture at the Illinois Republican state convention in [...]
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By Dana Wheeles on August 22, 2012
During the American Civil War, the United States Army assembled regiments of African-American troops to help in the fight against the Confederacy. This week’s image shows a banner from one of these regiments, with the motto, “Rather Die Freeman Than Live To Be Slaves.” (NYPL – African American History Collection)
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By Dana Wheeles on June 18, 2012
Our image this week shows a view from NINES’ own home institution, the University of Virginia, where the ousting of President Teresa Sullivan last week has lead to a larger debate about the role of universities and higher education in the 21st century. This photo comes from the Pageant of America collection at the New York [...]
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