Title: An Epidemiology of Information

URL: http://flu1918.lib.vt.edu

Description: Project homepage for An Epidemiology of Information, a project exploring how newspapers shaped public opinion during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Using data mining techniques combined with historical and rhetorical analysis to understand the flow of information about the spread and impact of disease, we explored hundreds of newspaper titles, including those from Chronicling America at the United States Library of Congress and the Peel’s Prairie Provinces collection at the University of Alberta Library.

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Subject:   Influenza

Title: Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture @ Virginia Tech

URL: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/

Description: The Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) began as a college-level center, the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during 1998, based in the Department of Political Science within the College of Arts and Sciences, as directed by then-dean Robert C. Bates. Working with faculty in the Virginia Tech Cyberschool as well as the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning (IDDL), he CDDC continued its activities within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences from 2003 to 2013. With the abrupt restructuring of IDDL in 2013, budgetary support and space constraints at the university level made it necessary to return to its collaborative roots in the Department of Political Science.

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Title: Kremlin Kronicles

URL: https://kremlinkronicles.dh.lib.vt.edu/

Description: Kremlin Kronicles is a series of articles geared toward understanding the Soviet Union through various facets of Soviet culture.

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Subject:   Soviet Union

Title: Lord Byron and His Times

URL: https://www.lordbyron.org/

Description: Lord Byron and His Times is a growing digital archive of books, pamphlets, and periodical essays illustrating the causes and controversies that preoccupied Byron and his contemporaries. The documents, large and small, ephemeral and monumental, underscore the social dimensions of publishing in the romantic era; the archive uses notes, commentary, and links to highlight relationships among their readers and writers.

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Title: Love and Suspense in Paris Noir: Navigating the Seamy World of Jake Lamar’s Rendezvous Eighteenth

URL: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/love_and_suspense/index/

Description: Taking readers on an itinerant journey through Jake Lamar’s novel Rendezvous Eighteenth, Tyechia Thompson, practitioner of Black Paris, explores narratives of African-American expatriates in Lamar’s life, his Paris, and his work. Unfolding in six different paths, this interactive literary analysis pulls together interviews with Jake Lamar and relevant videos, showing Lamar’s chosen setting of the Eighteenth Arrondissement and treatment of race as a departure from contemporary fiction of its type. Introducing the “different side of Paris” through narrator Ricky Jenks, Lamar centers his novel on the lesser known parts of the city, enabling direct challenges to migration narratives of inclusion and racially utopic France. Building a new layer of analysis in each path, Thompson demonstrates a flexible approach to text, showing the complexities of Rendezvous Eighteenth in both form and content.

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Subject:   Black Paris,  Jake Lamar

Title: Performing History: Women and the Vote

URL: https://performinghistory.com/womenandthevote/

Description: The year 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. This project is the culmination of months of hard work by students from Radford University and Virginia Tech, who explored the socio-political and cultural impact of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. The stories shared here are each student’s own imagining of one specific moment in the life of a historical figure connected to the movement.

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Title: Philosophy and Physical Computing

URL: https://thinkandcode.lib.vt.edu

Description: Homepage for the Philosophy & Physical Computing Workshop at Virginia Tech in 2019.

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Title: Redirected - Kremlin Kronicles

URL: https://sites.lib.vt.edu/kremlinkronicles/

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Subject:   Soviet Union

Title: Redlining Virginia

URL: http://redliningvirginia.org/

Description: This exhibit explores the actions of HOLC in Virginia and its impact on Virginia cities. It was originally an exhibit from 12/7/2016 to 2/17/2017 in Newman Library at Virginia Tech.

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Title: Roanoke Valley in the Great War

URL: http://roanokevalleygreatwar.lib.vt.edu

Description: Roanoke Valley in the Great War is devoted to researching and exploring the lives of over 3,000 Roanoke area World War I veterans.

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Title: Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830

URL: http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/

Description: Spenser and the Tradition includes verse by many persons not generally regarded as poets: bishops, bluestockings, and barristers; shopkeepers, soldiers, and schoolboys. The database contains thousands of works too topical or otherwise ephemeral to find a place in conventional anthologies and literary histories.

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Title: The American Soldier in World War II

URL: https://americansoldierww2.org/

Description: During World War II, the US Army administered more than 200 surveys to over half a million American troops to discover what they thought and how they felt about the conflict and their military service. The surviving collection of studies is now accessible to the public for the first time at The American Soldier in World War II. This site contains over 65,000 pages of uncensored, open-ended responses handwritten by service members, survey data and original analyses, topical essays by leading historians, and additional learning resources.

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Subject:   World War II

Title: The April 16 Archive

URL: http://april16archive.org

Description: The April 16 Archive is a collection hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech that hosts content submitted by faculty, staff, students, and community members in remembrance of the tragedy that took place at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.

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Subject:   April 16, 2007

Title: The Bosworth Letters

URL: http://bosworthletters.vtcath.org/

Description: This project provides access to selected letters from the “Squire Bosworth Papers” collection (1848-1892), which Virginia Tech’s Special Collections recently digitized. While these documents are now available worldwide, the letters will be difficult for most people to read because they are handwritten and discuss non-contemporary topics. Therefore, this project carefully presents and transcribes selected letters from this collection.

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Subject:   Bosworth Family,  correspondence,  Civil War

Title: The Gravell Watermark Archive and the Memory of Paper, The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive

URL: https://memoryofpaper.eu/gravell/

Description: As of May 2022, the Gravell Archive has become a constituent of the Bernstein Consortium’s Memory of Paper Portal of online watermark collections, under the oversight of Emanuel Wenger. The primary reason for this migration stems from a problem that occurred when the project migrated servers in March 2014. At that time, the connection between the local FilemakerPro database and the MySQL database on the server was severed, and despite much effort, we were never able to re-establish the connection. A secondary reason is that Mosser and Sullivan are retired. Prior to the technical issue described above, we were able to incorporate 2933 records collected by Tom Gravell and 5547 edited records of the unpublished tracings of Briquet, along with a handful of other records.

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Subject:   watermarks

Title: The Gray Jacket

URL: http://grayjacket.vtcath.org/

Description: The Gray Jacket was the first literary magazine of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (known today as Virginia Tech). Published intermittently from 1875–1909 by the Lee Literary Society and the Maury Literary Society, The Gray Jacket featured short fiction, poetry, essays, letters to the editor, and humorous anecdotes, written primarily by students at the College.

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Subject:   Literary journal

Title: The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive

URL: http://www.gravell.org/

Description: In the Spring of 1995, Thomas L. Gravell and the University of Delaware Library agreed to participate with Daniel Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, II to make The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Collection of photographic reproductions of over 7,000 watermarks in paper made between 1400 and 1835 available as a searchable online electronic database on the Internet, with the Experimental Bulletin Board System, hosted by the English department at Virginia Tech, as the Internet server, with Len Hatfield providing technical and design support. Thomas Gravell made his original photographic reproductions of the watermarks with the photographic process he developed employing Du Pont DYLUX® 503 photosensitive paper. Far archival purposes, Thomas Gravell rephotographed his original images as slides that are held at the University of Delaware Library, as are the notecards on which Thomas Gravell recorded information identifying the watermarks.

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Subject:   watermarks

Title: VPI in World War I

URL: http://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/

Description: VPI in World War I is dedicated to researching and documenting the lives of Virginia Tech's World War I veterans and to exploring how Virginia Tech experienced that international conflict. The VPI in World War I database contains information on over 1,000 Virginia Tech students, alumni, and faculty who served during the First World War.

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Subject:   Veterans

Title: Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

URL: https://civilwar.vt.edu/

Description: Homepage for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech.

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Subject:   Civil War