The Delaware Public Archives, a special collections institution that provides outstanding leadership in creating digital products to support the study of First State heritage, has just launched another valuable resource. It is the George Luther Caley Postcard Collection, a group of almost 7,000 twentieth century images of the State and Delmarva. George, a Smyrna resident,…
Category: Research Resources
Carroll County Library Digitizes Westminster Newspaper
The Carroll County Public Library has digitized its collection of the Carroll County Times. This online, text searchable resource spans the years 1933 to 1999. The old, original microfilm was professionally scanned and software was used to allow for easy text-based searching of the collections. This valuable addition of records for researchers joins a growing body of…
Digital Humanities Project Crowdsources a Civil War Chaplains Diary
I have had an interesting experience working on a digital humanities initiative, a crowdsourcing project with the University of Delaware Museum Studies Program and History Media Center. It involves a Civil War chaplain’s diary that has been gathering dust for 150-years and was periodically brought out for some research. The University digitized the diary and students, faculty and staff are pouring over fading pages…
Presentation on Research and Writing About History
On the day the Digital Public Library of America opened its virtual doors to the public, I was in Havre de Grace to do a talk with author Heidi Glatfelter on “Researching and Writing about the War of 1812.” We took a team approach to the program as I focused on new methods of doing…