A database and resource for primary source information about the nearly 19,000 enslaved and free Black people who built Nashville’s Civil War defenses and fought in the Battle of Nashville (December 1864).

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.

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The American circus has a unique and often overlooked importance in American history. The first American circuses began shortly after the country was founded, and as the country’s population grew, moved West, went through the Industrial Revolution, and opened its gates to the world, the circus followed. Indeed, in many cases the circus provided people’s first view of new inventions, exotic animals and peoples, and popular entertainments. The history of the circus is in many ways a microcosm of the history of America.

Depressed, post-industrial U.S. economies crystalized after World War Two as labor costs, information technology, and changing demand took hold. Initially considered to be sporadic or temporary, persistent and substantial job losses began as early as the 1920s in some cities and were most pronounced in communities whose fortunes had been long associated with coal, textiles, manufacturing, and steel. Cities Without Work: The Long Road from Boom to Bust is the collective narrative of the seventeen American cities with the highest rates of unemployment in 1960.

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ClockWork is a digital humanities sonification project developed by the 2015-2016 cohort of the Praxis Fellowship at the Scholars’ Lab of the University of Virginia. We were charged by the Scholars’ Lab with imagining time outside of the commonly-used framework of a timeline. We theorized the relationships between time, commodities, the purchasing power of wages, and the value systems that these relationships structure from our cross-disciplinary perspectives.

CBW began as an exhaustive, annotated bibliography amassed through original research by Professor Alison Booth and graduate students at the University of Virginia. The digitization of that bibliography has allowed for the creation of a relational database interconnecting data about the women and men featured in the biographical narratives, the biographers, editors, and publishers of the collections, and the books and narratives themselves.

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Please visit Digital Aponte, a site linked below and dedicated to the life and work of José Antonio Aponte, a free man of color, carpenter, artist, and alleged leader of a massive antislavery conspiracy and rebellion in colonial Cuba in 1811-1812.