The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.

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The Archaeology of Legal Definitions of Speech uses natural language processing to chart changes in the legal definition of speech and to place this language in its cultural and technological contexts. Drawing on a large corpus of Supreme Court decisions dealing with the First Amendment, the Archaeology identifies the terminology associated with speech in different historical periods, highlighting discontinuities in the way the law defines and delimits speech and drawing attention to the specific meanings of the concept in the past.

This website explores the lives of the residents of two nineteenth century American cities: Alexandria, Virginia in 1860 and Newport, Kentucky in 1870. Alexandria was a commercial city based on slave labor; Newport was an industrial city based on immigrant labor. The website allows the user to search for individuals, for social groups, and for businesses; the results of searches are displayed on a map of the city showing the residences of individuals and the location of businesses.

Christianity has historically invested the idea of kinship with strong religious meanings. The faithful have been imagined as an idealized family of brothers and sisters and, collectively, as the bride-wife of a divine husband. Few, if any Christians, however, have gone to the lengths or the literalism of Mormonism in comprehending salvation within kinship and investing kin with priestly saving powers.

The Lexical Categories of the Mopan Maya will encompass a searchable multimedia archive of Mopan Maya texts, based on audio and video recordings of Mopan speech that Prof Danziger collected during field trips to Mopan territory. Mopan is the only surviving member of its branch of the Yucatecan subfamily, one of only two Mayan subfamilies that are directly associated with the famous Classic Maya of antiquity. It is an indigenous minority language of Central America, native to Belize and Guatemala, but is not yet well-documented.

Karen Van Lengen, in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities (Director, Worthy Martin) and the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia, has undertaken this project to present the authentic sounds of iconic architectural spaces to encourage the appreciation of the aural characteristics of designed places, often suppressed by our predominantly visual culture. After making recordings of the selected spaces, Karen Van Lengen edits the sound tracks into a ‘characteristic’ 60-second sound sample that becomes the basis for further

The Chaco Research Archive is a collaborative effort to create an online archive and analytical database that integrates much of the widely dispersed archaeological data collected from Chaco Canyon from the late 1890s through the first half of the 20th century. The ruins of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park hold great meaning and importance to many Native American groups of the Southwest as ancestral sites.