External Sites:

These are sites that we have identified as exemplary representations of digital humanities.

Photogrammar – Yale University web-based project for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).

The Valley of the Shadow – University of Virginia project that details two American communities, one in the North, and one in the South.  Starting from the time of John Brown’s Raid through the Reconstruction Era, the site provides original letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, census and church records.

Lehigh University Sites:

Beyond Steel – With an emphasis on industry and society, this site focuses on industry and society in its review of the Lehigh Valley’s mid nineteenth-century boom through late twentieth-century decline and the continuing community readjustment. The site provides a number of period sources, including letters, books, photographs, and oral histories.

Digital Bridges – This site houses a digital collection of over thirty representative historical bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and artifacts from the Lehigh University Libraries’ Special Collections.

The Brown and White – This site provides an archive of Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper from 1894-2012.

Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania – This site features volumes from the Pennsylvania Geological Survey fourth series which provides a wealth of detail about Lehigh, and Northampton Counties, including their geography, geology, meteorology, and history.

History on Trial – This site inquires into controversies over the representation of history.

I Remain – This site provides a digitally accessible collection of sources from a range of individuals — from ordinary citizens to Presidents, literary luminaries, movie stars, soldiers, and politicians.

Digital Library of Illuminated Manuscripts – This site enables institutions that may have only one or a few of these documents to participate in a digital project.

The Lost Neighborhood – This site recreates a diverse South Bethlehem neighborhood that was lost due to post war urban renewal.

The Problem of the Planets – This site is the online presence for an astronomical review  course. that explored the scientific, historical, and philosophical implications of Copernicus’s proposal, with special emphasis on his solution to the age-old problem of planetary motion.

Digital Scholarly Editions – This site makes available important documents, manuscripts, or texts that are accessible otherwise only by site visits to historical societies or to libraries’ special collections.

Lehigh Student Award Winners Journal  – This site  gathers together prize-winning student scholarship. The site includes winning submissions for the Williams Writing and Performance Awards and the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prizes.

The Vault at Pfaff’s – This site is an archive of art and literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York.

Villainy Detected! – This site reviews eighteenth and nineteenth century crime and punishment practices in America and Britain.  The site presents a number of judicial reform debates, along with the reflections of Lehigh University scholars.