Category: Geography & Urban Studies

Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) created by Yale University. In order to place the … Read more

Living with Oil in Ecuador explores the experience of life-with-oil in the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador. A city of over 160,000 people, Esmeraldas is home to the largest state-owned refinery in Ecuador. Environmental injustices associated with the refinery are common … Read more

The Digital Feminists of Carolina project seeks to give transparency to the significant questions of who is doing digital humanities work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, what kind of work they are engaged in, how and … Read more

The Digital Humanities Project “GWonline, the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on Gender and War since 1600” : http://gwc.unc.edu/welcome  GWonline collects and organizes secondary literature, women’s autobiographies, films and informative websites on this subject to make them available to the public … Read more

Charlotte 1911 “Charlotte 1911” is a collaborative project between the Digital Innovation Lab at the University of Chapel Hill and the Levine Museum of the New South, whose mission is to “engage a broad-based audience in the exploration and appreciation … Read more

The How Do You Say It? project is an interdisciplinary and community service oriented project that exploits DH Press to layer, map and visualize information about the Spanish language varieties used to address Latin@ audiences in the prevention of intimate … Read more

Names in Brick and Stone: Histories from the University’s Built Landscape has been produced by the students in History/American Studies 671: Introduction to Public History taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Fall of 2015 … Read more

Using 1920 census enumerations and the 1922 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the area, the DIL is “reconstructing” the Loray Mill Village as it was in the early 1920s. This was an important moment in the history of the mill … Read more

Recovering Hayti is an ongoing collaborative project being undertaken with Preservation Durham, a local historical preservation society whose mission “is to protect Durham’s historic assets through Action, Advocacy, and Education.” This beta project is an emulation of the “Repopulating Hayti” … Read more

Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina documents the state’s history through a spatially based presentation of commemorative monuments, shrines, and public art. This digital collection enables users to visualize and analyze the historical memory of the state of North Carolina by … Read more