{"id":685,"date":"2009-11-04T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:02:06","slug":"digital-history-%e2%80%93-edward-ayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/04\/digital-history-%e2%80%93-edward-ayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital History \u2013 Edward Ayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"digitalhistory_ex2\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/digitalhistory_ex2.jpg\" alt=\"digitalhistory_ex2\" width=\"125\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The history department at the University of Nebraska has a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhistory.unl.edu\/lectures.php\" target=\"_blank\">lectures <\/a>on digital history projects available, including Edward Ayers\u2019 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhistory.unl.edu\/lectures\/ayers.php\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War and Emancipation: Visualizing American History<\/a>.&#8221; Ayers, who developed the <a href=\"http:\/\/valley.lib.virginia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley of the Shadow<\/a>, discusses that project as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.vcdh.virginia.edu\/emancipation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emancipation Project <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.vcdh.virginia.edu\/SHD\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern History Database<\/a>. While a transcript is not available, Ayers also presents his ideas in a short essay, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhistory.unl.edu\/essays\/ayersessay.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping Freedom<\/a>.\u201d Digital history projects like the Valley of the Shadow allow historians to \u201cbore down to the stories of individual people and families and, as Ayers explains, in this case \u201csee how people held in bondage created new lives for themselves.\u201d Also be sure to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhistory.unl.edu\/interviews.php\" target=\"_blank\">interviews <\/a>with other historians who share their thoughts on digital history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history department at the University of Nebraska has a number of lectures on digital history projects available, including Edward Ayers\u2019 &#8220;Civil War and Emancipation: Visualizing American History.&#8221; Ayers, who developed the Valley of the Shadow, discusses that project as well as the Emancipation Project and the Southern History Database. While a transcript is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156,12],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","category-maps","tag-us-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}