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Doc Chat: Slavery and Capitalism in the Archives

NYPL's Matt Knutzen and NYU Professor Tom Augst explore the archives of the financial firm Brown Brothers & Co. and discuss ways of locating the deep ties between Northern bankers and the slaveowning South.

Segarmakers, Wheelwrights, Merchants: Extracting a Million-Record Dataset from Historical NYC City Directories

Come hear about an ongoing effort to extract over a million entries documenting the New York City's from its historic city directories for public use.

Urban Humanities: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Perspective

What new opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration do digital tools afford scholars working with archival resources? How might new digital tools make the history, art, and culture in New York City visible in new ways, to new publics?

Whitman among the Bohemians: Book and Website Launch, and Tour of Pfaff's Cellar

Come hear about the bohemians of antebellum New York who supported, slept with, parodied, and drank with Walt Whitman at a pivotal moment in the poet's life and career.

NewYorkScapes Project Showcase

Students in the digital humanities graduate course “Mapping Archives: Cultural Geographies of New York City” will present their projects from Fall 2014.

Laura Fisher on the City of Words Project

Laura Fisher of Ryerson University in Toronto will be discussing a digital and public humanities project that geolocates literary and historical texts on a map of New York City.

Jeremy Rowe on Mapping the History of Photography in Nineteenth-Century New York and Arizona

Jeremy Rowe presents a digital project that uses geolocation as a tool for understanding the economic development of historic photography.