E-Projects

Percival Everett: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography

Snap! The Marlon Riggs Bibliography

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.

The E-Channel presents the literary and philosophical speculations of the writer Charles Johnson. Created by E. Ethelbert Miller, it is a one-year project in which Mr. Miller will interview Dr. Johnson each week about his books, beliefs, and various mattters of the heart and mind. There is also an interactive component through which readers of the E-Channel can ask questions of Dr. Johnson by addressing the Comments section of any of the weekly posts on the site. It's a wonderful excursion through this author's thinking, and you will be able to communicate with Charles Johnson through our visit to Seattle in January 2012 for MLA.