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Paper Through Time
Professor and MacArthur Fellow, Tim Barrett explores the history, composition, craft, and conservation of paper through time.
Program Era Project
The Program Era Project documents the aesthetic and cultural influence of the Iowa Writers' Workshop by employing data visualization software to track connections between Workshop-affiliated writers and follow their migration into prominent positions at other creative writing programs.
History Corps
History Corps is a graduate student-led, online digital and oral history project based out of the Department of History at the University of Iowa.
Mabbott Poe Papers
Mabbott Poe is an online resource based on the papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1898-1968), life-long numismatist; professor of English Literature; expert on the works of Milton, Whitman, and others; and, perhaps most famously, editor of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project
The Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project charts the history of Iowa's Carnegie libraries by creating a digital library of images and other documentary and statistical information. CLIP represents a partnership among students, staff, and faculty at The University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa's library practitioners and members of Iowa communities. As materials are collected and made available in a database record for each community, it will be possible to more completely study and understand the history of Iowa's Carnegie libraries in the context of their evolving communities.
The Life and Works of Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253–c.1336)
Amīr Najm al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253–c.1336) is hailed as one of the greatest Indian poets in the history of Persian literature. This project makes accessible a comprehensive documentation of archival and ethnographic sources which illuminate the biography and legacy of the poet as well as the reception history of his literary oeuvre.
Oakdale Community Choir Site
Professor Mary Cohen's Oakdale Community Choir site documents the activities of the choir which provides choral singing experiences for men (inside singers) in the general population of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center (Oakdale Prison) who are not restricted to their units and for women and men (outside singers) in the community who have an interest in learning more about issues in the prison system locally and across the state and nation.
Placing Segregation
Placing Segregation explores housing segregation and socioeconomic disparities across select nineteenth century American cities through interactive maps and interpretations. This digital edition puts historical census records into an interactive map application, allowing audiences to conduct all kinds of exploratory work such as searching records by name, filtering by occupational groups, or just clicking on points to read about various individuals.
UK Choral Composers
This project highlights British choral composition from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It features profiles on contemporary British choral composers and a searchable database of their compositions and use of texts, with the aim of supporting education, assisting with repertoire selection when considering concert programs, and providing resources for research.
Women of Ancient History
An interactive, crowdsourced map, WOAH raises the visibility of women working in various fields associated with ancient history.
Fluxus Digital Collection
The Fluxus Digital Collection is an online archive that gathers an eclectic range of artworks by one of the most important movements of the twentieth century.
&Mix
&MIX is an initiative of the University of Iowa Libraries to encourage the creative reuse of public domain materials in the Iowa Digital Library by students and the general public.
Atlas of Early Printing
The Atlas of Early Printing provides an interactive tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century.
Women in Sport is a research effort to digitize, interpret, and make available the sporting stories of Iowan girls and women.
Codex Conquest
Codex Conquest teaches students to recognize the most important printed books of Western civilization by their nation, century, genre, and current monetary value. Along the way, students learn world history and the scenarios that influence the shape of collections at institutions.
J.H. Ramberg as Illustrator of Books and Almanacs | Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Almanach- und Buchillustrator
This project aims to catalogue the book and almanac illustrations of German painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg, linking available digital versions to a descriptive bibliography.
Pull of Horses
Drawing upon a rich archive of visual materials, Professor Kim Marra's Pull of Horses focuses on the effect of equine contact with human female bodies, which in particular, aroused concern, as mostly white upper- and middle-class women took up riding en masse in highly visible venues around New York City.
Creative Alternatives
Creative Alternatives examines artists in East and West Berlin experimenting with action art (including performance, installation, and art "actions" in public space) in the decades surrounding German unification in 1989/90.
Iowa History Connections
Iowa History Connections provides an online starting point for Iowa educators, students, and interested members of the public to access digital materials that explore the history of Iowa in word, image, and audio. IHC aims to further cultivate an appreciation for our rich Iowa history and to facilitate its inclusion across the social studies curriculum.
International Writing Program Map
The International Writing Program's interactive map visualizes nearly 50 years of writerly participation on a global scale.
Remappings
Remappings: Christians and Jews in Early England enables users to explore Jewish-Christian interaction in England during the middle ages and renaissance. Interactive maps are central to this project, which combines the accuracy of GIS technology with the rich aesthetics of early cartography
Meet the Manuscript
A site exhbiting digitized medieval manuscripts, transcriptions, translations, and critical materials generated by Spanish Paleography workshop attendees.
Migration is Beautiful
Through life stories, interconnecting themes, and maps, visitors explore the contributions of Latina/os to Iowa's economic, social, and cultural history, beginning with the settlement of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Iowa over a hundred years ago and extending to Puerto Rican Americans and Central Americans.
Dutch in the World
Professor Julie Hochstrasser resituates Dutch art and nurtures new ways of thinking about art and visual culture from the seventeenth century to today.
Explorer's Legacy
Explorer's Legacy looks at the history and impact of Explorer I and UI professor James Van Allen's role in the space race.
Examining News Media Literacy
Examining News Media Literacy explores the rise and development of news media literacy through an experimental social-news aggregation environment.
LitCity
LitCity guides you on a tour of the highlights of Iowa City's rich literary history.
Under the Banner of Waverley
"Under the Banner of Waverley" maps where and when American towns named Waverly were founded, explores why the Waverley novels fascinated nineteenth-century readers, and illustrates how Walter Scott's legacy continues today.
Germans in Iowa
This online archive was developed to support German Iowa and the Global Midwest, a series of linked events exploring Iowa's multicultural history through the largest group of European origin to settle in the state.
Madurese Storytellers
This digital collection features folk tales of the Madurese people, the third largest ethnic population in Indonesia. Collected by Professor William Davies of The University of Iowa's Department of Linguistics, these videos of native storytellers performing traditional and historical narratives are accompanied by four different kinds of written texts: the original Madurese, English and Indonesian translations, and an interlinear format which includes morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, the common format for linguistic analysis.
Iowa Native Spaces
Iowa Native Spaces is a public humanities project which seeks to address the nature of American historical consciousness, particularly as it relates to American Indian and U.S. history. Using digital mapping, we seek to circulate a new set of narratives that challenge conventional readings of indigenous pasts, presents and futures.
Equity at Iowa
The Equity at Iowa project is a collaboration between Judith Pascoe (UI English Professor) and Wendy Robertson (University of Iowa Digital Scholarship Librarian), who are working with Nikki White (Digital Humanities Research and Instruction Librarian) and Ethan DeGross (Researcher/Developer) to explore the open data found in the Iowa State Employee Salary Book. In honor of Women's History Month, each business day of March 2016, we will be pairing a digital photo from the Iowa Women's Archive or University Archives with a bar chart or graph that makes visible gender differences in professional status and salary allocation, as well as patterns of change across time.
Downtown Pop Underground
In the 1960s and early 1970s in Lower Manhattan, a tight-knit community of theatrical performers, playwrights, poets, musicians, video-makers, visual artists, activists, and gender rebels began smashing the status quo of American culture. This project takes a kaleidoscopic tour of the deeply interconnected alternative worlds and personalities that flourished in the city during this period.
The Books That Made Shakespeare
The Books that Made Shakespeare is a digital exhibition that allows you to learn about and explore the ways in which Shakespeare's poems and plays were printed and published, bought and sold, and collected and catalogued. This exhibit explores the books that made Shakespeare: the books he read and used, the books that preserved his works, and the books that shaped his reputation and reshaped his textual afterlives.
Mapping Decline
Interactive maps help tell the story of Professor Colin Gordon's Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. Four interactive series of maps, each touching on a major theme developed in the book, also include a selection of documents, linked from the maps or the accompanying text boxes.
Death and Life at Bolores and the Sizandro Valley, Portugal
Death and Life at Bolores and the Sizandro Valley, Portugal showcases the archaeological research carried out by Professor Katina Lillios, University of Iowa students, and collaborators at the third millennium BCE burial at Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal) and investigations in the Sizandro Valley.
This digital archive encompasses the oral histories from coffee pickers, farmers, hacendados (owners of vast farming land), women and teens from the mountainous western area of Puerto Rico known as the coffee zone. This archive is the first to record and preserve the coffee zone's dialect and oral histories. The collection also include the ways in which women in the coffee industry have handled the micro-changes in their community, and how these changes have played a role in the preservation, and sometimes annihilation, of the coffee zone's dialect.
Shakeosphere
Shakeosphere allows users to visualize, map, and explore social networks in Shakespeare's England and beyond, from 1473-1800. Our goal is to make it easy and intuitive to see and search the ways that books, letters, and other documents connected readers, writers, printers, publishers, and booksellers around the globe.
DIY History
The UI Libraries' participatory archives platform brings thousands of primary source documents to the public for crowdsourced interactivity. We're appealing to the public to help us work with these documents by attaching text in the form of transcriptions, tags, and comments. By engaging volunteers to contribute effort toward large-scale goals, these mass quantities of digitized artifacts become searchable, allowing researchers to quickly seek out specific information, and general users to browse and enjoy the materials more easily.
Tractatus
This interactive version of Ludwig Wittegnstein's philosophical work is built around a subway-style map with the aim of making it easier to navigate the sequences of statements laid out in the book. This is the first Tractatus website to provide a map of the book's overall structure, and the only one that provides parallel access to the earlier versions of the text in the Prototractatus.
Invisible Hawkeyes
Invisible Hawkeyes chronicles black students who attended the University of Iowa. Helping these individuals' stories to emerge more fully, this website reflects the experiences that defined African American presence at a white, public Midwestern university.
Uptight & Laid-back
Uptight & Laid-back: Iowa City in the 1960s, is an ongoing collaborative project developed by University Archivist David McCartney and the Studio. Curated topics pages and an interactive map map invite the public to explore an array of material associated with the campus and the community during this dynamic and turbulent decade.
Scholarship@Iowa
Scholarship@Iowa showcases scholarship and scholarly resources related to diversity at The University of Iowa. It is our hope that students and faculty interested in diversity and the research in and around these historical underrepresented groups will explore our archives and find themselves and their Scholarship@Iowa.
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