Category: Re-Envisioning and Reclaiming History

Jim Egan and Patrick Rashleigh (Brown University) Can the digital turn in humanities scholarship produce more fruitful engagements between post-secondary institutions and the many publics that exist outside the academy? To engage this and related questions, this presentation will focus on Mapping Colonial American Publishing (http://cds.library.brown.edu/mapping-genres/), a collaborative project that uses library catalog data from…

Michael Newbury and Daniel Houghton (Middlebury College) Though mostly forgotten today, the Collinwood  School fire of 1908 killed 172 grade-school children and raised an international clamor for the redesign of school buildings.  A team of faculty, staff, and students at Middlebury College have tied together short computer-animated movie, archival footage, advertisements, and photographs to create…