Materials across the empire
An update from Isabel Morris and Becca Napolitano.
2016 Updates
Seed Grant proposals deadline extended to Monday, November 7
Once per semester, the Center for Digital Humanities invites proposals from members of the Princeton faculty, Princeton post-doctoral fellows, and Princeton graduate students for Seed Grants to support individual or collabor…
After lives; or, the true history of Samuel Johnson in a digital archive
When the Princeton Prosody Archive received its original data from the HathiTrust Digital Library, this data included over three hundred entries attributed to Samuel Johnson. Such a high volume of entries (not to mention the…
One hundred million million poems
The last time I wrote, I had just begun to learn how to program in Python, creating a simple programmed version of Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards de poèmes for my Annex 3. This program, along w…
Reconstructing Dunkirk's fortifications, and multiple networks of communication
Digital humanities is a remarkable method of identifying historical connections hidden in traditional, analogue historical analysis. As I wrote in November 2015, "Historians soon learn that not all that is present is easily …