Data and contextual information for “History of Black Writing works in the HathiTrust Digital Library,” a workset curated by Maryemma Graham, Sarah Arbuthnot-Lendt, Jade Harrison, Brendan Williams-Childs, and Ashley Patricia Simmons in collaboration with the HathiTrust Research Center with generous support from the Mellon Foundation.
View the Project on GitHub htrc/scwared-history-of-black-writing
This site is the home of the History of Black Writing Works workset, a collection of African American authored volumes found in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
The GitHub repository, of which this site is a part, includes an introduction to the workset, a list of volumes in the workset, data sets derived from analysis of the workset, and a project report discussing the process of curating and analyzing the workset.
This curated workset was developed as part of the Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Re-use, and Dissemination (SCWAReD) initiative, generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is the research center of the HathiTrust Digital Library. HTRC receives generous support from the HathiTrust Digital Library, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois.