I wrote about teaching #VastEarlyAmerica, why it is so challenging--and worthwhile.http://karinwulf.com/teaching-vast-early-america-take-1/ …
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Who was
#VastEarlyAmerica? In mid-18th c Native Americans constituted approx. 50% of North American pop. north of the Rio Grande.@ClaudioSaunt ‘s Mapping the American Population project will launch this year (he co-directs https://ehistory.org )#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/pLDN5ZAEog
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How diverse was
#VastEarlyAmerica? An analysis of early 18th c New York networks among Mohawk, Mahican, Dutch, English and Africans by@MaeveKane shows history of individuals & family connections & a demo of digital tools: http://maevekane.net/wmq-uc/#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/nGTD5NsCza
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This project was presented for an
@OIEAHC sponsored workshop chaired by@shazblock & Josh Piker at UCIrvine. Blogs abt the workshop include https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/a-digital-research-in-early-america-recap/ …#VastEarlyAmericaPrikaži ovu nit -
How about
#VastEarlyAmerica on the Pacific coast? The Early California Cultural Atlas directed by Steve Hackel maps the migration of California native people, and settlers and soliders from northern Mexico, before 1850. http://ecai.org/ECCA/INDEX.HTML#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/OdS9vTKljP
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The Early Calif. Pop. Project incorporates work fr the early California Population Project - a database of birth, marriage, and death records from all of the California missions, 1769-1850. https://www.huntington.org/ecpp
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What can we learn abt
#VastEarlyAmerica by aggregating sources? Long story short: a lot.@digitalpaxton looks at the 1763 massacre of 20 Susquehannock people & the subsequent march of the “Paxton Boys” into Philly. http://digitalpaxton.org/works/digital-paxton/index …#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/d8U8UdPVHA
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What do we understand abt some fundamental contexts for
#VastEarlyAmerica through employing digital tools? Long story short: a lot. Project by Vincent Brown at Harvard on the revolt in Jamaica by enslaved people in 1760-1761. http://revolt.axismaps.com#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/YJCevMBLPa
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Researching & writing
#VastEarlyAmerica is collaborative. The Native Northeast Portal, a database of the Yale Indian Papers Project, digitizing resources fr New England collections in cooperation w scholars & researchers, inc. tribal members. https://www.nativenortheastportal.com#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/9fgwPu3Clf
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Help connect
#VastEarlyAmerica – yes, you. Sign up to help transcribe newspaper ads to create digitized, searchable text through the@fotmproject – digital projects help reveal more abt the complexity, violence of slavery & the humans who experienced it.#VASTEA2019pic.twitter.com/HW8WysOTm5
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You can sign up for
@fotmproject here to become a transcriber: https://app.freedomonthemove.org/crowdsourcing/transcriber …#VastEarlyAmerica#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/0c8IUKi1Oc
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A thread w/ in the thread--
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#VastEarlyAmerica was mapped in many different ways. “Heart of the Continent” is a project by@maxedelson showing how mapping wove native and colonial information abt early Canadian geography.#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/AueIG2obj3
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Also: Check out MapScholar, Max’s @NEH_gov funded platform for geo-spatial visualization. Some cool projects posted there. http://viseyes.org/mapscholar/ and though http://viseyes.org other visualization tools.
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Health & disease in
#VastEarlyAmerica - The smallpox epidemic of 1775-1782, analyzed in Elizabeth Fenn’s book _Pox Americana_ mapped by Fenn &@claudiosaunt#VastEA2019 http://usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2c94e981a6c6485ab0e26bb680e0b063 …pic.twitter.com/SERnFXfESr
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W the geographic visualization you can zoom in to see the smallpox cases and the historical sources - ex: this 1780 ref (modern Texas/ Oklahoma) & explanation of reach and impact of smallpox on Comanche and others.
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Who was writing to whom in
#VastEarlyAmerica? An early digital resource, Mapping the Republic of Letters@Stanford hosts a series of projects including visualizing the correspondence networks of Benjamin Franklin. http://republicofletters.stanford.edu#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/70AAyvMTU4
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Long story short: Benjamin Franklin wrote/ read a LOT of letters. With the tool you can set parameters for diff. views I was interested in BF's relative corr. w Phil. merchant & politician Issac Norris, so….
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First this. Then February will be digital archives for
#VastEarlyAmerica#VastEA2019 thread. Thanks for reading!https://twitter.com/kawulf/status/1092385687654096896 …Prikaži ovu nit -
Visualize
#VastEarlyAmerica.@JCBLibrary multiple online archives, including over 7,000 items in this database of (largely European-authored) Early American images, and more than 3,000 in the online map collection: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/jcb-online/image-collections …#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/ZD7LbrSU72
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Mortality a key theme in
#VastEarlyAmerica - One way to explore for settler population. is via the Farber Gravestone Collection@AmAntiquarian -- extraordinary photographs of more than 9,000 pre-1800 New England gravestones.#VastEA2019 http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/FBC~100~1 …pic.twitter.com/fF5mpfAWSb
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#VastEarlyAmerica was Atlantic. The@georgianpapers newly@BSECS prize-winning resources accessible via http://georgianpapersprogramme.com include this#KG3 letter – renewing his corr. w the Prime Minister after an episode of extreme mental illness.#VastEA2019 https://bit.ly/2GlVBoW pic.twitter.com/mQWqxA8nBX
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Much more on the blogs and within the site, including transcription led by
@WMLibraries digital team, and on the@RCT site, the main portal to the archives: https://gpp.rct.uk pic.twitter.com/wub5Ggcghi
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Digital
#VastEarlyAmerica - “Digital Newberry”@NewberryLibrary launched June 2018 - http://digcoll.newberry.org - searchable by subject, date range & keyword. Fr German-American Birth and Baptismal Certificates: Heinrich Stein, Bucks County Pennsylvania, March, 1787.#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/cd3giheJDT
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In
#VastEarlyAmerica President’s Day is celebrated year round in the remarkable resource Founders Online fr@USNatArchives@NHPRC & partners. Over 182,000 searchable documents, absolutely vita for early histories of the United States. https://founders.archives.gov#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/QmdoJ8qsxG
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The interface for Founders Online is helpful in many ways. See how the number of items authored and received is detailed? In this resource, for example, are 20,249 authored by Jefferson (second only to George Washington), and 26,637 receieved (the largest number).
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For materials pre-transcription, editing & annotation see, for ex, the Thomas Jefferson Papers
@librarycongress . One of over 900 repositories where editors of _Papers of Thomas Jefferson_ located TJeff material. Microfilmed, now online: https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/about-this-collection/ … …#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/rkV59rnZtV
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Digitizing Harvard’s
#VastEarlyAmerica. The Colonial North America project aims to make@HarvardLibrary known holdings for 17th and 18th c North America available -over 300,000 pages already online, with more added periodically. https://bit.ly/2UjGChW#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/2bgb5QbhTo
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The
@ArcadiaFund fellows on the Colonial North American project@HarvardLibrary have curated selections in blog posts suggesting potential for a wide range of research https://bit.ly/2RS1vnJ#VastEA2019pic.twitter.com/7tvt9lbxfK
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For mapping
#VastEarlyAmerica: digital collections of the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library@bplmaps also includes links to significant partner collections#VastEA2019 https://collections.leventhalmap.org/collections pic.twitter.com/RNDzIJEryB
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