An article by DSL Director Robert K. Nelson, “Of Monsters, Men—and Topic Modeling,” appeared in the New York Times Disunion blog series. The article uses the topic model developed for “Mining the Dispatch” to explore the strategies used in the Richmond Daily Dispatch to motivate southern men to join the Confederate army where they engaged in the morally challenging task of killing other men and where they risked losing their own lives.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Secession: Virginia and the Crisis of Union, 1861 explores a topic of broad interest as the sesquicentennial of the Civil War approaches: How did the decision to secede–and start the bloodiest conflict in US history–come about?
