Announcing @americanpano new @mappingcongress map. Analyzes nearly two centuries of House of Representatives elections. Most comprehensive map of House election results. Joint project between @urichmond DSL & Virginia Tech’s Department of History. Explore: https://t.co/UtdtH2HPHb
🚨 JOB POSTING 🚨
The Digital Scholarship Lab @UR_DSL@urichmond is hiring a Full Stack Library Solutions Engineer! 🖥️
We are looking for someone who is creative, interested in working on academic projects and takes pride in the craft of web development.
https://t.co/0ZjWpqhPI3
Explore “The #HomesteadAct of 1862”. By 1912, homesteaders had transformed more than 125 million acres from public lands to private property. While Native Americans were dispossessed of large portions of the American #West. @urichmond @WilmJulius #maps
https://t.co/eZyREMiURT
The grant to turn https://t.co/SVF60flj24 into a tool for image collections has been funded! It was the idea over 10 years ago when we started but the technology wasn’t there. So excited to make it happen now with such a great group!
Thrilled to see the piece @lwinling & I cowrote, "How Academia Laid the Groundwork for #Redlining," out today on @PLATFORM__space: https://t.co/RkAUtjYcSv
This distills our article about Richard T. Ely's role in theorizing racist land value theory, pub'd in the June @JournAmHist
Final edits are being added to the "Land Acquisition and Dispossession" project mapping the Homestead Act from 1863-1912. This project is in collaboration with @WilmJulius who is doing amazing research on the American West! @AHAhistorians@WhaHistory#History#Maps#GIS
Explore 170,000 photographs from the Great Depression and World War II with the *new* https://t.co/40M8u5l8v5! A collaboration with @DistantViewing , #Photogrammar is now housed @urichmond and features new ways to see the era and to hear from the photographers.
The "Electing the House" interactive map makes the most robust and comprehensive dataset to-date of congressional elections available in a user-friendly format, offering additional dimension of insight into the current political moment. https://t.co/unkk2VJvqI
Excited to kick off our afternoon panels including ‘Black Technophiles and Platform Creativity,’ opened up by @sflorini’s talk “Black Technoculture as Digital Vanguard.” #AADHum2018
Today's the day! The #NCPHactive twitter mini-con kicks off at 11:15 am with @artstuffmatters keynote. Remember ALL times are in Eastern! https://t.co/GU1bQ1A4nH