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Digital Humanities Now

Started in 2009, Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) is "an experimental edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web." A scrolling set of resources on the homepage features the Editor's Choice, which includes Grasping Technology, Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers, and other helpful topics. Moving on, visitors...

https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/
Digital Image Collections: Indiana Historical Society

Bringing together images of African Americans in Indiana, Abraham Lincoln, and many other subjects is an inspired idea, and it's part of the mission of the Indiana Historical Society. Over the past several years, they have been digitizing materials furiously, and currently there are over 38,000 images available on this website. The images are divided into eight topical areas, including "Military...

https://indianahistory.org/
Digital Library of Indigenous Science Resources

The Digital Library of Indigenous Science Resources (DLISR) is a library collection of online text, video, audio, and image files of Indigenous science. According to the DLISR, Native or Indigenous Science "involves Native persons learning about and understanding the natural world (or non-Native persons learning about and understanding the natural world in the same ways Native people do)." The...

https://www.tapestryinstitute.org/dlisr.html
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Digital Library of South Dakota

To know the Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD) is to explore the wide world of this majestic state and its rich history. The DLSD is a collaboration of the libraries of the six Board of Regents colleges and universities, along with other educational partners around the state. On the site's homepage, visitors can elect to search across all of the DLSD collections or use the "Browse" feature....

https://explore.digitalsd.org/digital/
Digital Library of the Caribbean

This rather remarkable collection based at the University of Florida is a unique collaboration between that institution and a range of academic libraries, historical societies, and other organizations throughout the Caribbean. The collections here include the Panama and the Canal, Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library, and the Vodou Archive. The Panama and the Canal archive contains 172 items...

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/dloc1?n=dloc&n=dloc
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Digital Library of the Caribbean

Scholars, educators, and the generally curious alike may be interested in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). Founded in 2004, this unique resource is formed by a collaboration between more than 40 partner institutions "within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private...

https://www.dloc.com/
Digital Maryland

The homepage of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage website is quite inviting, as it combines images of the commonwealth’s distinctive flag with historic images of racing horses, a reference to one of the region’s most well-known pastimes. Drawing on archival collections from such local institutions as the Montgomery County Historical Society, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, along with many...

https://www.digitalmaryland.org/
Digital Sanborn Maps of Milwaukee 1894 and 1910

It might be hard to wander around Milwaukee in 1910, unless you have a friend with a functioning time machine. Well, such a journey through time and space is almost possible with this fine collection from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library. The collection brings together the Sanborn Fire Maps from 1894 and 1910, and these documents are excellent historical resources for academics,...

https://uwm.edu/lib-collections/sanborn/
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Digital Scholarship Lab

Based at the University of Richmond, the Digital Scholarship Lab develops "innovative digital humanities projects that contribute to research and teaching at and beyond the University of Richmond." On the website, visitors can learn about ongoing projects, publications, and the Lab's team of dedicated professionals. The Projects section is quite remarkable, as it contains seven unique projects,...

https://dsl.richmond.edu/
Digital UMass Archive

Founded in 1863, the University of Massachusetts combines both the applied sciences and disciplines with such traditional liberal arts standards as philosophy, history, and rhetoric. Over the past few years, in keeping with their mission to provide the public with access to their holdings, their library's Department of Special Collections and University Archives has created some fine digital...

http://scua.library.umass.edu/overview/university-records/
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