Christopher Brick, editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, will interview David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, the new biography of the First Lady. His book has been described as “the perfect biography for our times,” “fresh, luminous, gripping and beautifully written.”

This event is open to ADE members only.

This panel explores decolonial approaches to the Spanish colonial period and ethnohistory in the O’odham-Piipaash Documentary History Project and the Florentine Codex Project.

Participants will explore how members of the Slavery, Law, and Power project wrestled with the learning curve inherent in launching digital archives. They will further examine how digital projects can enhance the work of archivists, documentary editors, and historians and discuss new ways to expand access to and analyze documents that show how law and power shaped the development of slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean and early British empire.

This panel explores the multiple avenues for recovering histories of Black and Indigenous life from documents created by French settlers, slaveowners, and administrators of eighteenth-century Louisiana.

Participants discuss the decolonial strategies employed in a graduate student collaborative Digital Humanities project, The Bengal Annual: A Digital Exploration of Non-Canonical British Romantic Literature, and the archival project “Letters from Harriet Noyes: Missionaries and Women’s Education in 19th-Century China,” an endeavor that is supported by an undergraduate team.

This session explores four book-length galley proofs by American author Charles Chesnutt that present encoding challenges, and ultimately demand innovation, for the revitalized Charles W. Chesnutt Archive as well as the use of TEI to markup the idiosyncratic features of a volume in the William Townsend & Sons manuscript collection in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection. The latter offers a look into the world of 19th-century stationery bookbinding for the manufacturing of double-entry account books.

This session explores strategies for digitizing and disseminating archival materials documenting the history of the education of the blind, deafblind and visually impaired, spanning the 18th-20th centuries.

This session’s participants describe their work to recover Black histories, stories, and lives: from Black Mississippi legislators, to the family and circles of Annie Wood Webb (1831-1879), and early Black settlers in Ohio.

In this roundtable discussion, scholars and librarians share both strategies and challenges of coordinating projects related to Black-authored texts.