Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of MS

With the support of a @NEHgov Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, we're excited to partner with @_FromThePage_ & @msdiglib to develop and test AI-based software designed to increase access to digital archives & libraries. Read more about the award here: usd.edu/the-south-dako…

We've annotated over 5,000 subject tags in the collection! Each annotation is carefully drafted by our researchers to provide context to this rich collection & make it easier to discover the experiences and voices of women, African Americans, & many others.

Congrats to CWRGM leads @PetersonRae, @elabeaud, & @_FromThePage_ for receiving a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the @NEHgov! We are thrilled to partner with this project & help increase the discoverability of marginalized voices in history! neh.gov/sites/default/…

This week, co-director @PetersonRae attended @DHInstitute thanks to @NHPRC funding & took the Text Encoding Fundamentals course. Read her blog post on how to use TEI in K12 classes to encourage deep reading and provide an early exposure to DH skill dev.: cwrgmblog.org/teaching-text-…

We are learning lots at the @DHInstitute this week. Stay tuned to learn more about how they are applying advances in project planning, race and social justice theory, text encoding, and pedagogy to CWRGM. Thank you, @NHPRC , for supporting CWRGM's development.

Pease watch e-Laboratories' 60 minute webinar to see how scholarly editions like CWRGM and two other projects use different approaches to engaging teachers, as well as students of all ages, in the classroom. elaboratories.org/event/editions…

Check out co-director @PetersonRae's post on Muster, the Journal of the Civil War Era's blog, about some of the efforts CWRGM is taking to increase the discoverability of Black and other marginalized voices at the site. journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/05/uncove…

As I'm researching the Army of Vicksburg, I came across this cipher from Gen. Pemberton to Gov. Pettus in the @CwrgmProject archives. The message "fea vosmleee elttbs nv qeudwfo" translates to "ten thousand troops at Jackson".

Join co-director @PetersonRae to learn about how CWRGM and two other digital edition directors engage with K-12 educators and students. Hosted by eLaboratories, this free workshop will be held virtually on May 31 from 2:00–3:00 pm (EDT); register now: elaboratories.org/event/editions…

With support from the @NHPRC, project leads @susannahjural & @PetersonRae presented “Do They Work? Free Digital Archives and Reaching Marginalized Audiences" at the @The_OAH to share CWRGM's strategies for connecting people to the past using digital history projects.

We are happy to share, "Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn’s Impact on Education During Reconstruction," by Alessandra Diaz, a CWRGM intern, who also just accepted a position to study history and political science at Columbia. Congrats Ale! cwrgmblog.org/mississippi-go…

If you haven't explored our growing repository, head over to cwrgm.org now to discover a wealth of resources on Mississippi, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

The dedication of our research team at @msstate, @usd, & @SouthernMiss, which is comprised of high school, undergrad, and grad students from around the nation, is essential to our project's success, & we are grateful to have worked w/ such a dedicated & inspiring team.

We're thrilled to announce we've hit a major project milestone: our halfway mark! We've uploaded over 10,000 documents from Mississippi's Civil War- & Reconstruction-era governors' offices. 🧵

In collaboration w/ @NationalHistory & sponsored by @NHPRC, our co-director @PetersonRae worked with students from Iowa to develop methods for critically analyzing primary sources and including them into their NHD research using CWRGM's collection & outside primary sources.

Co-director Lindsey Peterson sat down with Mariah Cosens, a member of CWRGM's annotation and metadata research teams and MA student in the history department at the University of South Dakota, to discuss her work on the project. cwrgmblog.org/working-with-s…

Starting the year off right, our co-director @PetersonRae visited Flandreau, SD High School where students used the 13th Amendment and CWRGM letters to evaluate the advantages and limitations of primary sources with six sessions of students yesterday.

@PetersonRae is CWRM's new co-director! She joined us in 2020 as a researcher and has been a valuable member of the ed team since 2021. She is the DH Librarian at the University of South Dakota & holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Southern Mississippi (2022).