Selected Case Studies
Help expand this list by including particularly excellent DH Projects that you have come across
Mapping
Combines the geolocation of hundreds of written records with historical maps in order to visualize segregation in mid-19th century American cities such as Washington, D.C., Omaha and Nashville.
Mapping the Stacks (MTS) aims to identify and organize uncatalogued archival collections that chronicle Black Chicago between the 1930s and 1970s, in order to increase their use by researchers and the general public. We work with varied kinds of artifacts: literary manuscripts and visual illustrations; rare books and home movies; correspondence and photographs; ephemera and tape-recorded sound.
Mapathon in response to Hurricane Maria in 2017, brining together activists, students, and academic to help coordinate and direct relief efforts. Also contains a great guide on mapping in general.
Digital Archives / Exhibits
This online version of the exhibit offers complete digitized copies of all books and maps in the exhibit, and features an interactive digital map using world maps from the early nineteenth century to trace American diplomatic, military, commercial, missionary, and other activities in the world as they changed over time between the American Revolution and the American Civil War.
Text Analysis
-
See projects on http://dhlab.yale.edu/methods/text_analysis.html
Preserving / Visualizing History
A long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th century in Europe and America–that maps the transferring of thoughts across geographical space, allowing you to visualize that and see things in generative ways.
Holocaust Survivor Narratives in Postwar America, by Rachel Deblinger
Cairo Genizah Examples