1. Embedded Librarian in Undergrad Digital History Course & Extracurricular Graduate Workshops RUSA History Section Discussion ALA Midwinter Philadelphia 2014 Virginia Cole, Ph.D. Cornell University

2. HIST 2293/AMST 2293: Digital History Digital technologies change the way we learn about and understand the past. In this course, we will explore U.S. History in particular through the use of new digital tools that allow us to conduct research, analyze information about the past, and communicate what we know in different ways. Edward E. Baptist, US Historian (19 th century South, Slavery, etc.)

3. Course topics Project: Digital Scavenger Hunt Discuss/critique: Valley of the Shadow Intro to Relational Databases Discuss/critique: New Orleans 1829-1831 database Intro to Metadata & XML Discuss/critique: Richmond Slave Market in the 1850s Project: New Orleans Slave Trader database ArcGIS, Google maps, Google Earth tutorials Project: Geocode New Orleans Slave Traders Discuss/critique: DocSouth Intro to Text mining Project: Geocode DocSouth text Project: Create Ngram with DocSouth Discuss/critique: Edward Ayers’ book In the Presence of Mine Enemies Intro to Paper Machines Project: ManyEyes visualization FINAL PROJECTS: Input 100 Fugitive Slave Advertisements APP CAMP for Freedom on the Move Project

4. Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery (currently in development) runaway slave advertisements from pre-1865 U.S. newspapers (placed by slaveowners when enslaved people attempted to escape) which are single richest source of information about enslaved individuals in the US uses crowdsourcing to parse data into a database provides for public engagement with a formative and enduring national trauma, supporting lessons for K-12, university, and museum education publicly available for browsing and searching, and exportable for research and analysis

5. http://freedomonthemove.org/ Currently in development

9. Part 2: Humanities Graduate Student Immersion Program Began in 2012 with IMLS funding 2014 is third year 3-4 days in January before spring semesters begins 17-10 students each year

10. Topics Power Research Info (citation/pdf) management Finding Images Using Images for Research & Teaching Organize, Safeguard, Update: Manage Digital Research Files Finding Funding Working with Ebooks Using a Camera in the Archives Copyright for Doctoral Students Each session taught by different librarian(s)

11. http://guides.library.cornell.edu/olingrad

12. Optional fourth day of digital scholarship by Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services Publishing in a Networked Age Intro to Digital Tools (intro to HathiTrust & Voyeur) Showcase of projects from first cohort of Summer Digital Scholarship/Humanities Fellows

14. Virginia Cole, Ph.D. vac11@cornell.edu Questions? Comments? Discussion?