How to Use This Repository: This repository is intended for use with the CDRH API.
Data Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/data_civilwardc
Source Files: TEI XML
Script Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, PHP
Encoding Schema: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines
Civil War Washington examines the U.S. national capital from multiple perspectives as a case study of social, political, cultural, and medical/scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War. The project draws on the methods of many fields — literary studies, history, geography, computer-aided mapping — to create a digital resource that chronicles the war's impact on the city. Troops, fugitive slaves, bureaucrats, prostitutes, actors, authors, doctors, and laborers were among those drawn to the capital by a sense of duty, desperation, or adventure. Drawing on material ranging from census records to literary texts and from forgotten individuals to the famous (such as Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman) we examine how Washington changed from a sleepy Southern town to the symbolic center of the Union and nation.
This repository includes TEI/XML-encoded transcriptions and facsimile editions of historical manuscript and print materials chronicling and interpreting the experience of war and life in the District of Columbia during the Civil War.
Project Site: https://civilwardc.org/
Credits: https://civilwardc.org/about/index.php
Civil War Washington, directed by Susan C. Lawrence, Elizabeth Lorang, Kenneth M. Price, and Kenneth J. Winkle, is published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under a Creative Commons License.
See the Datura documentation for general updating and posting instructions.
Note: The Ruby script which was used to embed information from the original directory structure into the TEI text element has been retained for reference, but should not be run again.
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