Digital History Projects

Project 1: Antebellum Divorce in the American South

Status: In Progress
Methods: SQLite3, Shiny, Tesseract OCR with OpenAI’s API correction, overlaying shapefiles
Description: Analyze divorce petitions filed in North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee from 1800 to 1860. A work of gender and legal history.

Key Features:

  • Interactive Database in Shiny

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Project 2: OCRing Deed Books

Status: In Progress
Tools: AI Vision-Based OCR
Description: Utilized AI Vision to transcribe hand written deed documents found in Pickens County Deed Books. These records date back to the 19th century.

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Project 3: Civil War Diaries

Status: Completed
Methods: Word Vectors, Topic Modeling
Description: Analyzed the Civil War diaries of 15 Southern women.

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Just for Fun

Project 1: Boxer Lawn and Landscape Website

Status: Completed
Tools: Hugo, GitHub Pages, Formspree
Description: Created a company website for Boxer Lawn and Landscape.

Key Features:

  • Functioning contact page

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