Voting Viva Voce: Unlocking the Social Logic of Past Politics

This website explores the lives of the residents of two nineteenth century American cities: Alexandria, Virginia in 1860 and Newport, Kentucky in 1870. Alexandria was a commercial city based on slave labor; Newport was an industrial city based on immigrant labor. The website allows the user to search for individuals, for social groups, and for businesses; the results of searches are displayed on a map of the city showing the residences of individuals and the location of businesses.

Early Mormon Marriages: A Study in Socially Constructed Kinship

Christianity has historically invested the idea of kinship with strong religious meanings. The faithful have been imagined as an idealized family of brothers and sisters and, collectively, as the bride-wife of a divine husband. Few, if any Christians, however, have gone to the lengths or the literalism of Mormonism in comprehending salvation within kinship and investing kin with priestly saving powers.

A Worldview in Words: Lexical Categories of the Mopan Maya

The Lexical Categories of the Mopan Maya will encompass a searchable multimedia archive of Mopan Maya texts, based on audio and video recordings of Mopan speech that Prof Danziger collected during field trips to Mopan territory. Mopan is the only surviving member of its branch of the Yucatecan subfamily, one of only two Mayan subfamilies that are directly associated with the famous Classic Maya of antiquity. It is an indigenous minority language of Central America, native to Belize and Guatemala, but is not yet well-documented.

Soundscape Architecture: Aural Visual and Analytic Interpretations of Iconic Architectural Soundscapes

Karen Van Lengen, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities (Director, Worthy Martin) and the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia, has undertaken this project to present the authentic sounds of iconic architectural spaces to encourage the appreciation of the aural characteristics of designed places, often suppressed by our predominantly visual culture. After making recordings of the selected spaces, Karen Van Lengen edits the sound tracks into a ‘characteristic’ 60-second sound sample that becomes the basis for further

Chaco Research Archives

The Chaco Research Archive is a collaborative effort to create an online archive and analytical database that integrates much of the widely dispersed archaeological data collected from Chaco Canyon from the late 1890s through the first half of the 20th century. The ruins of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park hold great meaning and importance to many Native American groups of the Southwest as ancestral sites.

The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia 1870-1935

"The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1870-1935" is a digital archive of maps, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, public documents, and other media. "The Countryside Transformed" shows how the coming in 1884 of the railroad to the counties of Accomack and Northampton profoundly changed the physical and mental landscapes in which the people of the region lived, worked, and traveled.

The Digital Montpelier Project

Between 2004 and 2009, James Madison's Montpelier underwent a restoration that returned the home and grounds of the fourth President to the period of his retirement (1817-1836). Unlike most presidential homes, Montpelier had undergone extensive changes. In the 140 years since Dolley Madison sold Montpelier in 1844, stucco was applied to the home's brick exterior, interior walls were moved, large additions were built and extensive changes were made to the landscape. Yet throughout all of these changes the core of the Madisons' home survived.

Historical Architecture of Minnesota

Historical Architecture of Minnesota is the result of a collaboration between the Minnesota Historical Society and IATH, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities located at the University of Virginia. The project produced a series of digital models of several of Minnesota's historically significant buildings. The initial phase of the project resulted in a high quality 3D model of the Washburn A Mill and the surrounding Mill City area of Minneapolis in 1885.

Virtual Williamsburg

The Virtual Williamsburg Project is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF) to present the Revolutionary City, that is, Williamsburg, Virginia as we understand it to have existed in 1776. One aspect of the presentation will be a 3D model of the east end of the city.

A World's Fair in Italy: Turin in 1911

Turin 1911: The World's Fair in Italy is the first digital project devoted to the only universal exposition ever held in Italy. Though World's fairs were among the West's largest mass-attended events, they were also ephemeral occurrences designed to exhibit, rather than preserve, the changing world of modernity. Turin 1911 was no exception. Once the Fair was dismantled, its artifacts were scattered among institutional archives and private collectors, thus failing to be studied in a systematic manner.