The Digital Scholarship Lab develops innovative digital humanities projects that contribute to research and teaching at and beyond the University of Richmond. We aim to integrate thoughtful interpretation in the humanities and social sciences with innovations in new media.
Rob Nelson spoke on “Topic Modeling and the Shapes of Civil War Nationalism” at the Digital Media Symposium at the University of Wyoming.
February 1, 2012Edward L. Ayers and Rob Nelson each gave a talk at the launch of the Research Commons, home of the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), at Emory University. Ed Ayers’s talk was on “Seeing Time,” Rob Nelson’s on “Topic Modeling and the Shapes of Civil War Nationalism.”
“Hidden Patterns of the Civil War” collects a number of interrelated projects on the sectional crisis, slavery, and emancipation during the Civil War era, with a particular emphasis on the histories of the city of Richmond and the state of Virginia. Grouped as “texts” and “maps,” these projects use digital tools and digital media to uncover and represent patterns that are not easy to find when we look at particular pieces of evidence in isolation and only become evident when we visualize a wealth of evidence in graphs, maps, and models. Revealing patterns in text and across time and space, many of these visualizations are intriguing and surprising, offering us new insights into this dramatic era of intense social, political, and military conflict.
This blog follows and maps Elizabeth Goltra journey along the Oregon Trail during the spring and summer of 1853.
Secession: Virginia and the Crisis of Union, 1861 explores a topic of broad interest as the sesquicentennial of the Civil War approaches: How did the decision to secede–and start the bloodiest conflict in US history–come about?
This project investigates how the myriad discourses of migration and globalization have become manifest graphically across social spaces and street graphics in the contemporary American South.
“Hidden Patterns of the Civil War” collects a number of interrelated projects on the sectional crisis, slavery, and emancipation during the Civil War era, with a particular emphasis on the histories of the city of Richmond and the state of Virginia.
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