We are pleased to announce today that the Mellon Foundation has funded a collaboration between the Viral Texts project and the Racial Violence Archive, “The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921.” VRT will employ text-mining methods to trace the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in US newspapers...
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A Dataset of Nineteenth-Century American Recipes
https://github.com/ViralTexts/nineteenth-century-recipes/
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Draft Chapters from *Going the Rounds* Published Online
The Viral Texts team is currently working on a hybrid digital-print book project, Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers through the University of Minnesota’s Manifold Scholarship Initiative. We have just published two draft chapters online with Manifold Scholarship:
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"Fugitive Verses": The Circulation of Poems in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers
This is a peer reviewed but uncopyedited pre-print of an article forthcoming in American Periodicals 27, vol. 1 (Spring 2017). We provide it by the generous permission of the Ohio University Press. When the copyedited issue is published we will provide a link to the final version of the article...
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Computational Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers
This is a pre-print version of this article. The final, edited version will appear in the online edition of American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015). We will add a link to the final version when it is published. This methods piece works in conjunction with a literary-historical article. I. The...
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