A review of Redes, migrantes sin fronteras, a digital community resource project on migrant border crossing, directed by Rubria Rocha de Luna and Alicia Zavala García
A review of La Frontera: Artists Along the Mexico-U.S. Border, a showcase of artists, photographers, musicians, dancers, and writers from the border, directed by Stefan Falke
A review of Digitizing Rochester's Religions, a public history project on religious communities in Rochester, New York, directed by Margarita S. Guillory and Daniel Gorman, Jr.
A review of The Mixtape Museum, an archive project that collects, preserves, and shares knowledge about mixtape history, directed by Regan Sommer McCoy
A review of The Museum of Portable Sound, a collection of field recordings organized as exhibition galleries on a single mobile phone, created by John Kannenberg
A review of Stories in Stone, an annotated guide to the collections and papers of Ernest Westlake, directed by Rebe Taylor with Michael Jones and Gavan McCarthy
A review of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive, a digital project offering reproductions and transcriptions of Moore's notebooks, directed by Cristanne Miller
A review of Sonic Histories of Cork City, a public arts project exploring relationships between sound, space, and history, directed by Jillian Rogers, Elaine Harrington, and John Hough
A review of Bodies and Structures, a collaborative digital history project constructing the spatial histories of the Japanese Empire, directed by Kate McDonald and David Ambaras
Review of the East End Digital Library, a project that makes 19th-century archives of London's East End available to the public, directed by Heidi Kaufman
A review of Islands in the North, a digital exhibit (re)creating the space and place of Black Caribbean immigrants in Toronto, Canada, directed by Marlene Gaynair
A review of the Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana, a searchable database of American Jewish publications based on Robert Singerman's Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900, directed by Arthur Mitchell Fraas and Arthur Kiron and managed by Emily Esten
A review of Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance, a collection of poetry, drama, and fiction by African American women writers from 1900-1922, directed by Amardeep Singh
Review of Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation, a virtual reality experience on the Nova Scotia Home for Coloured Children, directed by Kristina Llewellyn
A review of Recovering New York City’s Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Press, a digital map of 19th-century Hispanophone print culture, curated by Kelley Kreitz
A review of New Roots / Nuevas Raíces Oral History Initiative, a bilingual digital information system documenting Latin Americans in the US South, directed by Hannah E. Gill
A review of Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, a crowdsourced transcription project on manuscript fragments from the Cairo Geniza, from Judaica Digital Humanities at Penn Libraries
A review of EHRI Ghettos, an authority list of Holocaust-era Ghettos using Wikidata, directed by Nancy Cooey, Kepa Joseba Rodriguez, and Vladimir Alexiev
A review of Documenting Judeo-Spanish, a digital humanities project preserving the Solitreo alphabet of the Ladino language, directed by Bryan Kirschen
A review of Mapping Jewish LA, a series of interrelated digital exhibitions on the past and present of Jewish Los Angeles, directed by Todd Presner and Caroline Luce
A review of On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, a Collections as Data and machine learning project, directed by Amanda Henley and Matthew Jansen
A review of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a digital media arts collective documenting gentrification struggles and creating tools for housing justice
A review of Relaciones Geográficas, an interface for exploring the Relaciones Geográficas of Mexico and Guatemala, 1577-1585, directed by Albert Palacios
A review of Louisiana Slave Conspiracies, an interdisciplinary project on the 18th-century Pointe Coupée slave conspiracies, led by Bryan Wagner, Patty Frontiera, Shadrick A. Small, and Jenelle Thomas
A review of SongData, a project studying the development and evolution of popular music genres over time, directed by Jada Watson with collaborator André Vellino
A review of Tribesourcing Southwest Film, a project redressing mid-century educational films about Native people of the Southwestern U.S., led by Jennifer L. Jenkins, Melissa Dollman, and Rhiannon Sorrell
A review of Furious Flower Digital Archive, a project featuring materials from the 1994 Furious Flower Poetry Conference, led by Joanne V. Gabbin and the Furious Flower Poetry Center
A review of Collective Biographies of Women, a project dedicated to the prosopography of women from books published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, created by Alison Booth
A review of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, a pedagogical resource for teaching Victorian studies through a race-conscious lens, directed by Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Ryan D. Fong, Sophia Hsu, and Adrian S. Wisnicki
A review of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, an interactive digital resource for the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) history in Canada from 1964 to 1981, directed by Constance Crompton and Michelle Schwartz
A review of Mapping Marronage, an interactive project examining the mobility of enslaved people in the 18th and 19th centuries, directed by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
A review of Land and Legacy, a project investigating the University of Virginia’s land expansion since the 1980s, directed by Janet S. Dunkelbarger, Connor Kenaston, Natasha Roth-Rowland, Lauren Van Nest, and Chloe Down Wells
A review of Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces, a compendium of resources for all stages of digital project development, created by Beth Fischer and Hannah Jacobs
A review of GeoMAP, a cartographic project on the history of the Parisian art market, created by Léa Saint-Raymond, Félicie Faizand de Maupeou, and Julien Cavero
A review of Against All Odds, a digital archive of the African American men who served in the Mississippi state legislature from Reconstruction until the 1890s, created by DeeDee Baldwin
A review of Digital Community Engagement, an open-access volume of case studies on digital partnerships, edited by Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald
A review of the Shakespeare and Company Project, a database of records from Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop, led by Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser
A review of Gulu SoundTracks, a collection of audio tracks that invites listeners into the sonic habitus and imaginations of their Gulu-based creators, created by Joella Bitter
A review of The Penn & Slavery Project, an app and website investigating the University of Pennsylvania's relationship to slavery, directed by Kathleen Brown
A review of The Comédie-Française Registers Project, a digital project featuring register receipts from the French Comédie-Française (1680-1791), directed by Jeff Ravel
A review of The Old Spanish Trail Auto Highway Archive and Map, a digital project on the Old Spanish Trail national roadway, directed by Lindsay Passenger Wieck
A review of Southeast Asia Under Japan, a repository for diverse primary and secondary sources related to studying the occupation of Southeast Asia in World War II, led by Sandeep Ray, Han Xing Yi, and Velusamy Sathiakumar Ragul Balaji
A review of Immersive Scholar, an initiative developing extensible models and programs for the creation and sharing of digital scholarship in large-scale and immersive visualization environments, directed by Micah Vandegrift, Walt Gurley, and Shelby Hallman
A review of Solidarity Book Project, a collaborative art project supporting access to books for Black and Indigenous communities, directed by Sonya Clark
A review of Forever Gwen Brooks, a website generating variations of the final poem in Gwendolyn Brooks' 1969 chapbook RIOT, created by Lilian-Yvonne Bertram
A review of Black Craftspeople Digital Archive, an archive of the lives and experiences of Black craftspeople during the 18th and 19th centuries, directed by Tiffany Momon and Torren L. Gatson
A review of Newspaper Navigator, a multi-phase project redefining searches for visual data in historic newspapers, directed by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
A review of Mina Loy, a multimedia digital project on the avant-garde works of modernist writer and artist Mina Loy, directed by Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum
Recognizing that the many facets of scholars’ identities as people has a direct impact on their professional lives, we identified the lack of peer review as a clear deterrent to building up digital scholarship in these underrepresented fields in digital humanities.
A review of COVID and Black California, a dashboard exploing how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Black people in California, led by Paulette Brown-Hinds, Stephanie Williams, Candice Mays, and Alex Reed
A review of Stop AAPI Hate, a website collecting accounts of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, directed by Russell Jeung and Aggie Yellow Horse
A review of I'm Still Surviving, an interactive digital exhibition featuring oral histories of women living with HIV/AIDS, directed by Jennifer Brier and Matt Wizinsky
A review of Medicine | Race | Democracy Lab, a digital humanities project exploring access and care beyond hospital systems, led by Lan Li, Ricardo Nuila, Fady Joudah, Pierce Salguero, and their team
A review of Time Layered Cultural Map, a software ecosystem that allows humanities and social science researchers to create, find, analyze, visualize, and share digital maps, led by Hugh Craig and Bill Pascoe
A review of Colonial Frontier Massacres, an interactive web map of massacres on the Australian colonial frontier, developed by Lyndall Ryan, Bill Pascoe, and team
A review of MaCleKi, a location-based digital history project that curates historic places in and around Kisumu, Kenya, directed by J. Mark Souther, Meshack Owino, and Erin J. Bell
A review of The American Soldier in World War II, a digital project studying U.S. Army surveys on the experiences of troops in the Second World War, directed by Edward J.K. Gitre
A review of BibSite, a research and pedagogy clearing house from the Bibliographical Society of America, led by Erin McGuirl, Eric Ensley, Emma Sarconi, and Adriana Cásarez
A review of A Deeper Sickness, an online collection curated by Margaret Peacock and Erik L. Peterson to accompany their book A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year (Beacon Press, 2022)
A review of Dig: A History Podcast, a podcast that delves into unique historical themes, directed by Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, and Marissa Rhodes
A review of Eileen Southern and The Music of Black Americans, a community-curated digital exhibition, directed by Katie Callam, Christina Linklater, and Carol J. Oja
A review of Dartmouth ‘66 Seminar Exhibit, a collection of materials related to the 1966 Anglo-American Seminar in the Teaching of English at Dartmouth College, curated by Annette Vee with contributions from Megan McIntyre and Lindsey Harding
A review of History of Early American Landscape Design, a digital resource for early U.S. landscape aesthetics and garden design in the colonial and national periods, directed by Therese O'Malley and Matthew J. Westerby
A review of BERT for Humanists, an online resource helping humanists use natural language processing, directed by Matt Wilkens, David Mimno, and Melanie Walsh
A review of Paisajes sonoros históricos / Historical Soundscapes, a website exploring historical urban soundscapes, directed by Juan Ruiz Jiménez and Ignacio Lizarán Rus
by Roopika Risam, Jennifer Guiliano, and Jessica DeSpain
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Published: Aug 28, 2023
Editors' note on the August 2023 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a partner issue with the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers, edited by Jessica DeSpain