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Project Details
The Maryland Loyalism Project presents the stories of the women and men of Maryland who remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution. It makes publicly available for the first time digitized and transcribed volumes of sources from a range of North American and United Kingdom archives. The project seeks to bring together records that illustrate the diversity of the Maryland Loyalist experience.
Subjects or Themes
Loyalism; American Revolution; African American
Project Language(s)
English
Time Period
Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Images of Historical Manuscripts, Transcriptions
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Project Team
Project Director: Dr. Benjamin Bankhurst (Shepherd University)
Technical Director: Dr. Kyle Roberts (American Philosophical Society)
Developer: Zachary Stella (Loyola University Chicago)
Transcriptions were contributed by a number of Loyola University Chicago and Shepherd University students, interns, and community members over the course of 2019-2020. Credit for transcriptions are recorded on the level of the individual page and can be found following each transcription as well as in the metadata for that page.
Interns
Jillian Curran (Washington College, CV Starr Center Explore America Summer Intern, 2020)
Elizabeth Lilly (Washington College, CV Starr Center Explore America Summer Intern, 2020)
Michael Mastrianni (Shepherd University, Digital History Intern, 2019)
Claire Tryon (Shepherd University, Content Editor Lapidus Digital Initiatives Intern, Summer 2019)
Jackie Wantz (Shepherd University, Digital History Intern, 2019)
Community Transcribers
Thomas H. Benner
Project Director: Dr. Benjamin Bankhurst (Shepherd University)
Technical Director: Dr. Kyle Roberts (American Philosophical Society)
Developer: Zachary Stella (Loyola University Chicago)
Transcriptions were contributed by a number of Loyola University Chicago and Shepherd University students, interns, and community members over the course of 2019-2020. Credit for transcriptions are recorded on the level of the individual page and can be found following each transcription as well as in the metadata for that page.
Interns
Jillian Curran (Washington College, CV Starr Center Explore America Summer Intern, 2020)
Elizabeth Lilly (Washington College, CV Starr Center Explore America Summer Intern, 2020)
Michael Mastrianni (Shepherd University, Digital History Intern, 2019)
Claire Tryon (Shepherd University, Content Editor Lapidus Digital Initiatives Intern, Summer 2019)
Jackie Wantz (Shepherd University, Digital History Intern, 2019)
Community Transcribers
Thomas H. Benner
Year(s)
2019-ongoing
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago
Software Employed
Labor and Support
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
American Philosophical Society
Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago
Maryland Humanities
Lapidus Digital Initiative, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
Shepherd University