Taking Care: The Question of AR, VR, and Blackness
I can’t breathe. At once: the wheezing out of a severely singular experience. Yet and also: a hailing of the social,
Standing Together Across Time and Space: Black Social Networks in Late Nineteenth Century Tennessee
On October 25, 1865, Henrietta Joyce and Elisha Helms stood before a clerk of the court of Davidson County, Tennessee, to
Reimagining the Lives of Black Soldiers Wives and Widows in Post-Civil War America
My book project, Her Claim for Pension is Lawful and Just, chronicles struggles of black women seeking benefits from the United States
A (Re)Energizing Pedagogical Approach: Engaging Digital Tools to Teach African American Literature
As an AADHum Scholar, one of my goals is to strengthen the connection between my research and teaching of 20th and 21st
Understanding More by Seeing More: Reflections on Digitizing the AFL-CIO Archive
How can the turn to the digital transform the archive into an active platform for creating, preserving, and transmitting knowledge? This
Hip Hop Archives: How Academia Preserves Rap Music’s Legacy
AADHum’s final digital humanities incubator session last semester, entitled “Representing Movement”, explored how we can use GIS to document travel and
Confronting “the Witness”: Encoding Archives of Black Lives
As a rhetorician, I am trained to analyze public discourse and the history of ideas. My critiques focus on “progressive” ideas—like
Civil Rights and Worker Rights: Digitizing Labor Archives
Throughout the Spring 2017 semester, AADHum has been working to explore, digitize, and make accessible portions of the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO