This afternoon while driving home from the University of Delaware during a heavy downpour, I listened to Transom, a new public media show. The broadcast, “Southern Flight 242: Bringing My Father Home” by Will Coley, was the piece that had me attentively listening as the rain came down. In it, an audio documentarian digs deeply…
Year: 2014
Links to High Quality Digital Content for Local & Family History Research on Delmarva
Since there is an enormous, rapidly growing body of research information available on the web, there is a need for a curated landing page, a place in the public commons on the net, to help someone digging into the past. This opportunity to help researchers is something I encounter often during public lectures and courses as…
Delaware Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Effectively Focuses on its Mission
Saturday I met a wonderful group, the Delaware Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (DEAAHGS). I was there for the Delaware Humanities forum to talk about “Exploring Family History through Genealogy,” and we had a great program. Long after the formal discussion wrapped up, we were still at it, exchanging ideas and talking about family history…
University of MD LIbraries Receive Funding for Phase 2 of Newspaper Digitization Project
The University of Maryland Library system has received a $290,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue digitizing historic Maryland Newspapers. The “Historic Maryland Newspapers Project” was first awarded a grant in 2013 to digitize 100,000 pages of newsprint between 1826 and 1922. About 86,000 pages are now available on the Library…