Workbook for Introduction to Digital Humanities: A-State

Morgan's Project Review

The Digital Humanities Project I chose to review is a project that works to provide researchers and students access to a multitude of primary sources that focus on slavery, abolition, and resistance. The project is organized and ran by Yale University. All of the primary sources come from the University’s libraries and databases. Located on the front page of the website is a “tag cloud” where one could quickly access primary sources for a specific topic of interest. Although the sources might seem disorganized and only organized under the vague title, through a simple search in the search bar, one can organize and sort items depending on what period, place, or topic might be of interest. Under the “links” tab, one can have access to multiple different electronic databases and digital resources.
Based on other archives and digital humanities projects I have located that cover slavery, abolition, and resistance, it seems as though that this specific project has access to the most primary sources. Not only does this project have many primary sources, the project is fairly new and is ran by a well-established institution.  I believe the website to be user friendly and believe it is a site that could be used by many different levels of researchers as well as students. 

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