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Reimagining the Lives of Black Soldiers Wives and Widows in Post-Civil War America | Brandi C. Brimmer
How did black women occupy space in New Bern before and after the Civil War?
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Beyond Preservation: A Digital Intervention Into Theatre & Performance Studies | Leticia Ridley
What can digital humanities offer to Theatre and Performance Studies? ... critical approaches to African American history, gender,...
“Huddles” and Hurdles: A Feminist Scholar’s Introduction to Black DH” | Alyson Farzad-Phillips
The AADHum community has helped clarify my concerns about white feminism... by centering, recovering, and exploring Black voices...
Understanding More by Seeing More: Reflections on Digitizing the AFL-CIO Archive | Will R. Thomas
Contextualizing these records affords people to ways to make sense of them, highlighting how echoes of past conversations...
Hip Hop Archives: How Academia Preserves Rap Music’s Legacy | Kevin Winstead
How would Atlanta look if you used Black oral history in rap as a starting place?
Of the Meaning of Progress: Digital Studies as Radical Praxis | Kevin Winstead
Black DH challenges us to recognize how the work of restorative justice starts not at the finished product,...
Confronting “the Witness”: Encoding Archives of Black Lives | Jessica Lu
When we centralize blackness and black lives, it is impossible to ignore how encoding is also a critical...
Civil Rights and Worker Rights: Digitizing Labor Archives | William Thomas
Graduate Assistant William Thomas reflects on his experiences working on AADHum's digitization efforts with the Civil Rights Division...
Answering the Call for Scholarship on Black Lives | Melissa Brown
I realized that black technological ability did exist—contrary to the deficiency story told about Black people and digital...
Of Wake Work and We Who Would Build: Centralizing Blackness in Digital Work | Notes on AADHum 1
Centering black experience has been my entry point for moving beyond critique to imagine new narratives and inquiry...
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