Preservation Plan: Runaway Quilt Project The Runaway Quilt Project is a small digital humanities endeavor for LIS 697 Digital Humanities at Pratt Institute. Currently this project lives on a WordPress blog, where digital research about … Continue reading
Proposed Digital Humanities Project Before 1865: Archive of the African American Presence in Colonial America 1619-1865 Before 1865, a digital thematic research collection, is critically needed in African American studies, and the general field of … Continue reading
Network Analysis Elisabeth C. Jones created a unique Sawtooth Star quilt, circa 1820-1840, with a white star in the center of a field of blue stars. The Sawtooth Star pattern is one of the designs … Continue reading
Mapping Ex-slave, Gracie Mitchell was interviewed by Bernice Bowden as part of the WPA’s Federal Writers Project. During her interview Ms. Mitchell showed 30 quilts to Ms. Bowden, “She showed me twenty-two finished quilt tops, … Continue reading
Textual Analysis The theory of a quilt code has many enthusiasts, but no concrete evidence. Quilt historians and Underground Railroad scholars have disputed and criticized the idea since it came to light. Comparing American and … Continue reading