Congratulations Amy!!! So well deserved!
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Congratulations Amy!!! So well deserved!
Whoa! Congratulations!!
Going to be such an important book for the Black Press 200th too!
My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.
Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳
Solidarity, amid all this chaos, to the roughly 97,205 people working on Schmidt Science HAVI proposals. Maybe it's cliche to say, but there's a lot riding on our collective ability to keep making ambitious and imaginative plans for the future.
I have seen a bunch of things floating around lately about Making Humanities Graduate Degrees Useful, etc, and I think the number 1 thing I would want to see as of today in 2026 is "more collaborative work for humanities grad students early on"
« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Looks great! Congratulations!
You're too kind! It got caught in my brain for a while too. One of these years want to try doing the full data cuisine workshop too!
For another, I've been having students design speculative museum exhibits based on a text or dataset. They get a short primer on exhibit design, then I ask them to think about what site/objects/placards can tell a compelling story for a particular audience. Helps to use paper, scissors, markers, etc
Well, huh, I never thought of it that way, but can totally see it. At least, the goal is to push students beyond simple charts to engage theoretical/practical questions about sight, taste, texture, etc. Those always lead to super interesting questions about taste, memory & narrative. Could fit?
Hey @princetoncdh.bsky.social! That's right! Our Schmidt Sciences HAVI award builds directly on work done at the CDH. Miss you all!
We're going to be working on this exact problem in the next year. OCR very much not a solved problem for old newspapers, like, at all. And that's even for hi-res scans, never mind the vast majority of scans from grainy microfilm. We'd be glad to know of any others working in this space
Friends! We did it!! Transcribe 2026 saw more than 8,000 people transform 37,790 pages. We are 100% done!
"There is a power in numbers and in union; because the many are more than the few." - Frederick Douglass, 1883
Douglass Day 2026 is 92% complete!
Almost there! Let's gooooo!!!!
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You busy April 9-10? There's going to be an amazing conference at Rutgers celebrating the (beta) rollout of the Black Bibliography Project database. Here's the agenda: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...
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Progress bar showing percent complete at 73%
Douglass Day 2026 continues
We are only 73% complete!
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A @zooniverse.bsky.social recap video from Douglass Day 2026, featuring footage from the in-person event at the University of Michigan library! Produced by our fantastic Adler Planetarium Manager of Creative Content, Meredith Stepien www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2U5...
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The great Alex Lubin bravely defending our right to academic freedom.
We have to be clear about our values and willing to fight for them, especially when they make policy makers uncomfortable.
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Douglass Day 2026 banner and the phrase "the work continues!" and then two donut charts that show "Transcribe" is 72% complete and "Find the Names" is 55% complete.
Douglass Day 2026 continues!
We are not done yet! Plenty of time to help transcribe and enrich the records of Black political organizing!
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Graphic listing book event schedule for "The House Archives Built" book tour. There are stops in Chapel Hill, Baltimore, Atlanta, Bethlehem PA New Haven CT, Baltimore again, Chicago, and Charleston
Thanks to @wehere.bsky.social I have this pretty graphic to show my scheduled book events. I will post specifics on each when I have them, and thanks to everyone who has sent me an invite! I'm open to other possibilities so feel free to reach out (more info on how to do that dorothy-berry.com/thab)
Yes it's wild! Free, cheap, and high-yield OCR is pretty much here. Only problem is OCR tools sit atop the vast problems of "AI." Just from my feed an hour ago: bsky.app/profile/pari.... There are some folks trying to do it transparently & ethically like olmocr.allenai.org. Uphill battle fr.
The transcription process was an eye-opening experience. This collection is amazingly comprehensive.
Very proud to have contributed to its access in a small way.
Thank you #DouglassDay for coordinating this program
I'm a big fan of this essay arxiv.org/abs/2111.03687. We have more work in progress.
Thanks! (Though we can say a lot of folks were missing the BTP in the mix too!)
In another era, we'd have pitched an NEH ODH proposal to investigate these issues around race in generative-ai OCR/HCR environments (both open & closed). Currently trying to contort these questions into an NSF pitch that can survive the gov't censors, but we shall see. Lots of open questions!
I'm deeply impressed by the advances in OCR/HTR, but would add that we are seeing (1) much lower accuracy rates for newspapers/ephemera and (2) very, um, odd racial fault lines in newer OCR tools running via generative VLMs/LLMs due (we suspect) to the more well-known racial issues in those models.
Moving Douglass Day to a new school has been absolute joy!
Our program was made possible by the work of 28 people at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. Plus an extraordinary show of support from the UCSB Chancellor, Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts and University Librarian. Already looking forward to 2027!
And we continue to celebrate #DouglassDay with our global transcribe-a-thon to make Black history open for all!
Transcribe the Colored Conventions
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Texas Conventions are SO fascinating. We can't wait to begin telling a fuller story of the Colored Conventions in Texas and the path they blazed from freedom to slavery.
The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum!
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