One of the first digital online projects I ever did as part of a collaborative grant was an educational aid to help students and faculty members use the internet for research called, The Research Station (https://is.gd/DZqm0d). Research Station represents an important but underexplored chapter in the history of digital humanities and educational technology partnerships. Operating…
Mark Twain Digital Project
We have funding now to do our Mark Twain Digital Day by Day project that will an exciting attempt to chronicle the day by day life events, people, places and works of the American author, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The project is funded by the Susan Jaffe Tane Digital Mark Twain Day by Day…
MSU Vietnam Group Archive
MSU Vietnam Group Archive (http://vietnamproject .archives.msu.edu/): roughly 80,000 pages of digitized documents, maps, and images, dating from 1955-1962, when Michigan State University led a range of US-funded technical assistance programs in South Vietnam for the purpose of producing a stable non-Communist ally in Southeast Asia (2015-). The project was funded by a grant from the…
Building a new website
I have been doing online projects for more than 25 years, but have always failed to do my own website. It was difficult to find time to build something for myself when there was always other projects to tend to as well as servers and new networks to build. Back in 1994, I set p…
What America Ate
What America Ate is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant based project that allowed us to bring together the WPA materials collected during the Great Depression in the United States as well as Community Cook Books of the period. See the project description site for details <https://matrix.msu.edu/what-america-ate> and the Project site <https://whatamericaate.org>. For…
Enslaved.org
Our project Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade has been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Foundation for the Humanities (NEH) as well as generous donors. The project has a number of people particpate throughout the years but the primary project directors are Daryle Williams, Walter Hawthorne, and myself. To…