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Spatial Historian software (Builders & Defenders database)

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The Builders and Defenders database is a collaborative archive documenting Black Civil War-era lives in Nashville, Tennessee, tied to the UNESCO site Fort Negley. It features nearly 5,000 enslaved and free Black builders from 1862, over 13,000 United States Colored Troops who defended the fort in 1864, and others mentioned in historical records who helped shape Black Nashville during the war.

15th European Summer University in Digital Humanities

The European Summer University in Digital Humanities was created in 2009 and has been running ever since. It seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and where these activities are integrated into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked.

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Building on the University of Oxford’s history of leadership in digital scholarship, its globally significant collections, and its diverse array of projects and practitioners, Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc) is an initiative to explore, enhance, and enable work in this field. By building capacity, growing community, and enriching engagement with collections, the initiative will help to unlock the University’s latent potential to produce internationally significant, innovative and engaging digital research.

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