American Studies Topic Archive – Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

14 May 2018

Unlocking the Airwaves

By Kirsten Keister|2019-01-15T10:26:37-05:00May 14, 2018|

Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection is a multi-institutional collaboration between MITH, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland, with collaborative support from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH/Library of Congress, and the Radio Preservation Task Force. The goal of the project is to create a comprehensive online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).

5 Mar 2018

Lakeland Community Heritage Project Digital Archive

By Kirsten Keister|2019-05-09T17:22:17-04:00Mar 5, 2018|

The Lakeland Community Heritage Project Digital Archive is a partnership between the Lakeland Community Heritage Project (LCHP), Dr. Mary Corbin Sies of University of Maryland’s Department of American Studies, and MITH, to document an historic African American community before and after segregation and contribute to an understanding of urban renewal’s impact on communities of color.

3 Oct 2017

Sarah Florini Digital Dialogue

By Digital Dialogues|2020-08-14T15:02:47-04:00Oct 3, 2017|

Though publics are often conceived of as bounded by platform, users frequently deploy platforms in conjunction to create trans-platform digitally networked publics. The multi-media [...]

18 Apr 2016

Andrew Blum Lecture: “The Internet, Really”

By Stephanie Sapienza|2019-05-13T15:58:18-04:00Apr 18, 2016|

Popular understanding of the Internet’s physical reality has changed dramatically in the past half-decade, with consequences for privacy and security. Drawing on the research in his book, “Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet,” journalist and author Andrew Blum will argue for a continued emphasis on the Internet's real-world geography.

5 Apr 2016

Matthew Kirschenbaum Digital Dialogue (and book launch)

By Digital Dialogues|2016-04-22T21:21:10-04:00Apr 5, 2016|

This Digital Dialogue is also a launch event for Matthew Kirschenbaum's new book Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, sponsored by the English department's [...]

29 Jan 2016

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities

By Stephanie Sapienza|2019-05-13T16:20:21-04:00Jan 29, 2016|

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) was awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and is being co-directed by MITH and the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy (Center for Synergy). The project was funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies, and will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities in African American history and cultural studies, and enrich humanities research with new methods, archives and tools.

3 Nov 2015

Trisha Campbell Digital Dialogue

By Digital Dialogues|2020-08-14T13:25:46-04:00Nov 3, 2015|

For some time, there has been a pressing need for studies that approach murder as something other than a pathological, criminological, or sociological problem to [...]

1 May 2012

From Print to Digital: The Black Gotham Digital Archive

By Digital Dialogues|2017-02-06T10:56:48-05:00May 1, 2012|

I’ve spent my MITH fellowship year working on “The Black Gotham Digital Archive.” My goal is to link an interactive web site, smart phones, and [...]

5 Dec 2006

The Digital Docket: Information Retrieval Meets Political Science

By Digital Dialogues|2016-09-02T17:05:01-04:00Dec 5, 2006|

Previous research of judicial systems has faced a trade-off between large scale quantitative inquiries focused on readily-counted behaviors, and smaller studies that allow closer examination [...]

NEH Digital Humanities

@NEH_ODH

☀️ Good morning! Did you know that October is National Arts & Humanities Month? We'll be celebrating by highlighting the amazing digital humanities projects we've funded in the past year using #ODHFunded #NAHM20 Follow along! ☀️

2:13 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

WITNESS

@witnessorg

Your media matters. Protect your media with our in-depth guidance on archiving for the long-term preservation, use, and accessibility of digital video: wit.to/Archive-Guide. twitter.com/document…

1:51 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

bibliotekah

@tttkay

If you're interested in ethically archiving social media, check out @fromADMwithlove's Social Humans label project through @documentnow docnow.io/social-hum… #archives

1:51 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

Vernon Mitchell, Jr.

@vcmitchelljr

Really proud of the work that I did with my colleagues at @documentnow. More proud of the new directions the work is going. In our current uncertain sociopolitical moment @DocNow continues to be vitally important to creating new ethical ways to archive social media.

1:48 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

Trevor Owens 💾🗄🕚

@tjowens

Excited to see “Datasets at the @librarycongress: A Research Guide” by Lynn Weinstein come out! guides.loc.gov/datas… full of great info on the selected datasets collection!

1:41 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

aleiabrown

@CollardStudies

I’m so glad we are talking about the capaciousness of Black Studies. @amplify285 brings this approach to our work @UMD_AADHum @UMD_MITH, encouraging experimentation/breaking/playing/(re)mixing computational tools in our understanding of Black life. #BlackDH twitter.com/CollardS…

1:32 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

Matthew Kirschenbaum

@mkirschenbaum

In cooperation with the executor of his literary estate @smtracz, @HyperCardOnline, and the @internetarchive, I am very excited to announce the publication of 14 lost “HyperPoems” by the noted poet William H. Dickey (1928-1994): archive.org/details/… archive.org/details/… pic.twitter.com/0CiO…

1:30 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

Matthew Kirschenbaum

@mkirschenbaum

The poems, edited for a never-realized posthumous publication, were recovered from the laptop of Deena Larsen at @UMD_MITH by @UMDEnglish Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum. The @internetarchive (fittingly in Dickey’s home city of San Francisco) finally offers us a platform for them.

1:30 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

Gimena del Rio

@gimenadelr

Hoy empezamos el 1er curso internacional de #humanidadesdigitales en Argentina cn @raffazizzi @yoko_nh @rominickyDL. Un gran desafío: clases en inglés, alumnos @UMD_MITH @USalvador, @CONICETDialoga aprendiendo minimal computing, TEI. Estamos MUY felices. mith.umd.edu/minimal… pic.twitter.com/7tcj…

1:28 am · October 3, 2020 ·

Retweeted by UMD_MITH

UMD_MITH

@UMD_MITH

Podcast buzz for the #unlockairwaves project, directed by @sapienza77 and @HoytEric and funded by @NEHgov! twitter.com/RadioSur…

6:51 pm · July 1, 2020

Follow @UMD_MITH