We're happy to announce that Camp Stewart—who has served the project for several years as a researcher—will become CWRGM's Lead Researcher. Camp is a BFA student at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studies graphic design and theater.

Starting the year off right, our co-director Lindsey R. Peterson visited Flandreau, SD High School where students used the 13th Amendment and CWRGM letters to evaluate the advantages and limitations of primary sources with six sessions of students yesterday.

Co-director Lindsey Peterson sat down with Mariah Cosens, a member of CWRGM's annotation and metadata research teams and MA student in the history department at the University of South Dakota, to discuss her work on the project. cwrgmblog.org/working-with-s…

In collaboration w/ National History Day & sponsored by NHPRC, our co-director Lindsey R. Peterson worked with students from Iowa to develop methods for critically analyzing primary sources and including them into their NHD research using CWRGM's collection & outside primary sources.

We are happy to share, "Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn’s Impact on Education During Reconstruction," by Alessandra Diaz, a CWRGM intern, who also just accepted a position to study history and political science at Columbia. Congrats Ale! cwrgmblog.org/mississippi-go…

With support from the NHPRC, project leads Susannah J. Ural & Lindsey R. Peterson presented “Do They Work? Free Digital Archives and Reaching Marginalized Audiences" at the Organization of American Historians to share CWRGM's strategies for connecting people to the past using digital history projects.

As I'm researching the Army of Vicksburg, I came across this cipher from Gen. Pemberton to Gov. Pettus in the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of MS archives. The message "fea vosmleee elttbs nv qeudwfo" translates to "ten thousand troops at Jackson".

Join co-director Lindsey R. Peterson to learn about how CWRGM and two other digital edition directors engage with K-12 educators and students. Hosted by eLaboratories, this free workshop will be held virtually on May 31 from 2:00–3:00 pm (EDT); register now: elaboratories.org/event/editions…

Check out co-director Lindsey R. Peterson's post on Muster, the Journal of the Civil War Era's blog, about some of the efforts CWRGM is taking to increase the discoverability of Black and other marginalized voices at the site. journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/05/uncove…

Pease watch e-Laboratories' 60 minute webinar to see how scholarly editions like CWRGM and two other projects use different approaches to engaging teachers, as well as students of all ages, in the classroom. elaboratories.org/event/editions…

We are learning lots at the DH Summer Institute this week. Stay tuned to learn more about how they are applying advances in project planning, race and social justice theory, text encoding, and pedagogy to CWRGM. Thank you, NHPRC , for supporting CWRGM's development.

This week, co-director Lindsey R. Peterson attended DH Summer Institute thanks to NHPRC funding & took the Text Encoding Fundamentals course. Read her blog post on how to use TEI in K12 classes to encourage deep reading and provide an early exposure to DH skill dev.: cwrgmblog.org/teaching-text-…

Congrats to CWRGM leads Lindsey R. Peterson, Elizabeth La Beaud, & FromThePage for receiving a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities! We are thrilled to partner with this project & help increase the discoverability of marginalized voices in history! neh.gov/sites/default/…

We've annotated over 5,000 subject tags in the collection! Each annotation is carefully drafted by our researchers to provide context to this rich collection & make it easier to discover the experiences and voices of women, African Americans, & many others.

With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, we're excited to partner with FromThePage & MS Digital Library to develop and test AI-based software designed to increase access to digital archives & libraries. Read more about the award here: usd.edu/the-south-dako…