Project Details
ArchivalGossip is the digital outlet of the ongoing American Studies research project “Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in Nineteenth-Century US American Culture” (2019-2022). The project explores the role of gossip’s tacit or collective knowledge in an era marked by shifting perceptions of privacy and publicity, increased economic volatility, and new notions of gender and sexuality. The database collects, digitizes, annotates, and transcribes archival documents and primary texts from the 19th and 20th century. The collection "Cushmania" is currently the fastest-growing subset of data within the database. It documents the public reception and private life writing of actress Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876). The new ArchivalGossip collection includes "gossip columns and columnists."
Subjects or Themes
LGBTQ+, Women, History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Feminist studies, Gender and women studies, Sexuality studies, Epistemology, Queer studies, Archival sources, Database management--History, Archival materials--Digitization, Manuscripts, Metadata, OCR (Optical character recognition), Computer-aided transcription systems--Software, Privacy
Project Language(s)
English
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Content Type
Archival Documents, Text, Mapping, Networks