Digital Scholarship Lab

Visualizing Emancipation in the Times-Dispatch

snesbit — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:37:38 +0000

The Richmond Times-Dispatch featured the Digital Scholarship Lab’s recent project, “Visualizing Emancipation” in today’s paper.

History Engine at NITLE Symposium

rnelson2 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:09:24 +0000

Rob Nelson along with Christine Berkowitz from the University of Toronto Scarborough together made a presentation “History Engine 2.0: Researching Locally, Collaborating Globally” at the NITLE Symposium: Inventing the Future in Arlington, Virginia. They outlined future directions for the History Engine, including a revamp of the way the History Engine handles geography that will enable to project to grow beyond US history. The History Engine was also featured prominently in a session from History Engine contributors Kathryn Tomasek, Julian Chambliss, and Lloyd Benson.

Travels Across the Plains

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:23:25 +0000

This blog follows and maps Elizabeth Goltra journey along the Oregon Trail during the spring and summer of 1853.

Visualizing Emancipation Site Released

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:06:29 +0000

“Visualizing Emancipation” has launched! The project maps the end of slavery during the American Civil War using military correspondence, newspapers, and letters and diaries.

Visualizing Emancipation

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:13:46 +0000

Visualizing Emancipation maps documentary evidence about when, where, and how slavery fell apart during the American Civil War.

Visualizing Emancipation

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:59:32 +0000

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

rnelson2 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:06:20 +0000

Rob Nelson made a presentation “Killing, Dying, and Genre: Nationalism and the News in the Confederacy” as part of a panel on Confederate literature at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference in Nashville.

Digital Media Symposium at the University of Wyoming

rnelson2 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:37:34 +0000

Rob Nelson spoke on “Topic Modeling and the Shapes of Civil War Nationalism” at the Digital Media Symposium at the University of Wyoming.

Digital Scholarship Commons

rnelson2 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000

Edward L. Ayers and Rob Nelson each gave a talk at the launch of the Research Commons, home of the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), at Emory University. Ed Ayers’s talk was on “Seeing Time,” Rob Nelson’s on “Topic Modeling and the Shapes of Civil War Nationalism.”

Southern Spaces

rnelson2 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:35:36 +0000

An interview with Rob Nelson, Scott Nesbit, and the DSL’s former director Andrew Torget appeared in Southern Spaces.