Mapping the Past Roundup
Maureen McGavin, "Digital project focuses on Lincoln-based sermons," Emory News Center, February 22, 2013 The route of Lincoln's funeral train A group of graduate students at Emory University specializing in digital research in the humanities have created a new website that uses digital tools to analyze and compare the text of sermons delivered after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Their project uses various digital text tools to map geographic and thematic patterns in the collection of 57 sermons, which reside in the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library of Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. The scholars are calling their project "Lincoln Logarithms: Finding Meaning in Sermons" and they hope it will become a model for the next wave of research in the humanities. >>> Max Fisher, "A surprising map of the world’s national holidays (only two countries have no national day)," Washington Post , February 26, 2013 This map...