South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)

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Citation: South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). https://www.saada.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: SAADA creates a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.

 

19th-Century Concord Digital Archive (CDA)

Author(s): Texas A&M University
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Citation: Texas A&M University. 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive (CDA). https://digitalconcord.tamu.edu/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: The Concord Digital Archive invites the scholar to utilize a broad set of digital documents to reconsider how the town and its writers are situated within broader scholarly conversations. A host of important American writers have ties to the city, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and Bronson Alcott. These authors interacted with groups less frequently recorded in textual documents of the time period: free African-Americans, Irish immigrants, the poor, and the criminal class. The interaction between these groups appears, upon inspection of the documents projected to be included in the archive, far more complex than that represented by current scholarship.

 

Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Author(s): University College London, Department of History
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Citation: University College London, Department of History. Legacies of British Slave-ownership. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: A database produced in the first two phases of a project studying how colonial slavery shaped modern Britain – while at present primarily a resource for studying slave-owners, it is also intended to provide information of value to those researching enslaved people.

 

The Orlando Project

Author(s): University of Alberta
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Citation: University of Alberta. The Orlando Project. http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a new kind of electronic textbase for research and discovery. As a new kind of history of women’s writing, it seeks to further the study and understanding of literature, focusing particularly on the part women have played in its development.

 

Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal

Author(s): Washington State University
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Citation: Washington State University. Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal. https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
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Annotation: Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal is a collaboration between the Spokane Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes Of The Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and Native American Programs at Washington State University. This Portal is a gateway to Plateau peoples’ cultural materials held in multiple repositories including WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, the National Anthropological Archives, the Library of Congress, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. The materials in the Portal have been chosen and curated by tribal representatives. Each item has one or more records associated with it as well as added traditional knowledge and cultural narratives to enhance and enrich understanding to many audiences.

 

GU272 Memory Project

Author(s): New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Citation: New England Historic Genealogical Society. GU272 Memory Project. https://gu272.americanancestors.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: In 1838, Maryland’s Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. This site may be used to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the more than 8,000 descendants of the enslaved, located through genealogical research.

 

Digital Public Library of America

Author(s): Digital Public Library of America
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Citation: Digital Public Library of America. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: These explore topics in history, literature, and culture, developed by educators