News & Updates

We’re happy to report that The People’s Contest will be joining the roster of Anvil’s Built Upon digital collections. From the project’s mission statement: The People’s Contest is directed by a team of scholars and librarians to advance scholarship on the Pennsylvania home front during the Civil War era. Through the archive and website, researchers…

(cc) Drew Bandy Since announcing Built Upon, we’ve had a number of enthusiastic responses and some equally engaging questions about the initiative. Commenting on the current tool-building emphasis in much digital humanities work, Paul Fyfe called Built Upon a “welcome venue,” remarking that the series “formalizes a get-to-work ethos using existing tools.” This captures nicely…

(cc)Kaytee Riek Last week we announced Anvil’s new Built Upon initiative. Now we’re excited to present the official call for proposals. If you’re working with digital archives and collections or have considered innovative ways of bringing digital research methods into your own scholarly practice, Anvil would love to hear from you! Questions? Please see our…

(cc) Leo Reynolds In keeping with our mission to foster innovative digital scholarship, Anvil Academic is excited to announce the launch of a new publishing initiative: Built Upon. The Built Upon series encourages authors to investigate and invigorate pre-existing digital tools and collections in developing their own scholarly arguments or pedagogical projects.  We want the…