University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001)
Susannah Ural (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
PW-269391-20
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$349,987 (approved)
$345,258 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
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Civil War Governors of Mississippi Digital Documentary Edition
The digitization, transcription, and annotation
of the papers of Mississippi state governors from 1859 to 1882 to include official
correspondence, military telegrams, and letters and petitions from the public.
The Civil War Governors of
Mississippi Digital Documentary Edition (CWGM) is an open-access collection of
nearly 50,000 documents from the state’s governors’ papers from the late 1850s
through the early 1880s that will be scanned, transcribed, and annotated over
the next six years. CWGM is seeking a three-year NEH Humanities Collections and
Reference Resources grant to fund the first three-years of this project.
Mississippi's Civil War-era governors' records capture the everyday experiences
of southerners from the period just before the American Civil War through the
end of Reconstruction and into the New South. The project involves a
cross-domain partnership between archivists at the Mississippi Department of
Archives and History, digital archives specialists at the Mississippi Digital
Library, and a historian-led research team at the University of Southern
Mississippi.
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