Together Umbra Search African American History and the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland organized a working meeting on digital collections and platforms focused on African American history and culture.
This presentation discusses the conceptualization and development of interactive cartographic platform In the Same Boats: Toward an Intellectual Cartography of the Afro-Atlantic. In the Same Boats is a work of multimodal [...]
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.
Part 3 of a short series of a lightly edited posts from of Purdom Lindblad's keynote for the University of Maryland Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum.
Part 2 of a short series of a lightly edited posts from of Purdom Lindblad's keynote for the University of Maryland Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum.
How can interactive media supplement and support justice-related social movements? Alexandrina Agloro, media artist and assistant professor, will discuss the landscape of design and [...]
Walter Forsberg, Media Archivist for the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian, will present an overview of the new [...]
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 [...]
Library and information science (LIS) has a dual history; as a profession that is over 80% white and female, the LIS workforce has been [...]
Part 1 of a short series of a lightly edited posts from of Purdom Lindblad's keynote for the University of Maryland Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum.