Fugitive Federals: Institutional Collaboration and Student Research in a Digital History Project – October 24, 2018

Dr. Lorien Foote, Texas A&M University, and Dr. Andrew Fialka, Middle Tennessee State University present the digital humanities project, Fugitive Federals, in CoDHR’s Humanities Visualization Space (HVS), 433 LAAH, on October 24, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.  Reception at 2:00 p.m. in 448 LAAH.  The project visualizes the escape of 3,000 Union prisoners of war during the Civil War and includes animated maps and video.  It features an on-going collaboration among undergraduate students at TAMU, the University of Georgia, and graduate students at Middle Tennessee State University to research and write short biographies of the escaped prisoners.

See Federal Fugitives flyer for additional information.