Category Archives: Archival Research

New Digital Humanities Approaches

Posted on April 6, 2013 by briansandberg

New digital humanities approaches are transforming the ways in which historians and other humanities scholars conduct research. This spring, I am offering a series of workshops on “New Digital Humanities Approaches to Renaissance Studies: Manuscript Imaging and Research Outsourcing in … Continue reading →

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Atrocities in Vietnam

Posted on February 28, 2013 by briansandberg

The United States military forces committed widespread atrocities during the Vietnam War, according to documents unearthed in the National Archives by journalist Nick Turse. The evidence of numerous mass killings of Vietnamese civilians reveals that the infamous My Lai Massacre … Continue reading →

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Preserving Timbuktu’s Cultural Heritage

Posted on February 4, 2013 by briansandberg

Timbuktu has been an important center of Islamic learning, scientific research, and legal scholarship for centuries. The city’s medieval manuscript collections are regarded as some of the best in the Islamic world. Because of its libraries and architectural sites, Timbuktu … Continue reading →

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Medici Archive Project Online Paleography Course 2013

Posted on January 28, 2013 by briansandberg

MAP Online Paleography Course 2013 For the fourth consecutive year, the Medici Archive Project will offer a 12-week Online Paleography Course. The course is designed to furnish participants with basic skills for reading historical manuscript materials from the late 15th- … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Paleography and Archival Studies

Posted on January 28, 2013 by briansandberg

Seminar on Paleography and Archival Studies For the third consecutive year, the Medici Archive Project will be offering a two-week intensive seminar on archival research especially intended for advanced graduate students in Renaissance and early modern studies. This seminar will … Continue reading →

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Medici Archive Project Fellowships

Posted on January 19, 2013 by briansandberg

The Medici Granducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato), comprising over four-million letters dating between 1537-1743, provides the most complete record of any princely regime in early modern Italy as well as an extraordinarily rich historical reservoir of European history. This collection … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Jewish Studies Fellowship

Posted on January 14, 2013 by briansandberg

The Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in early modern Jewish studies. The position description reads: “The letters in the Medici Granducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato) constitute an impressive historical reservoir of Jewish history. The … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Academies as Social Networks

Posted on January 10, 2013 by briansandberg

The academies of Renaissance Italy are being compared with internet social networks, such as Facebook. A major collaborative research project on The Italian Academies 1525-1700:The First Intellectual Networks of Early Modern Europe, is producing new findings on the complex world … Continue reading →

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Napoleon’s Letter on Destroying the Kremlin in 1812

Posted on December 3, 2012 by briansandberg

During Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, the French emperor came to the realization that he would have to abandon Moscow and order the retreat of his Grand Armée. In a coded letter to his foreign minister, he announced that … Continue reading →

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Samurai Boys in Italy

Posted on August 1, 2012 by briansandberg

Italian archives continue to offer up wonderful evidence for historians of the early modern world. The rich records of Italian principalities, republics, merchants, and religious organizations offer some of the best sources for using World History approaches in the early … Continue reading →

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