Please join us in welcoming the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) to the 18th Connect collection! ECPA provides an open-access digital archive of high-quality primary and secondary sources. Their full-text collection is edited and annotated as a collaborative effort, with a large network of editors, scholars, and students dedicated to collaborating and sharing texts. ECPA also […]
In November of 2019, the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts hosted the biennial joint meeting of the Aphra Behn and Frances Burney Societies. The theme of the conference was “Public Good(s),” and scholars presented a wide range of conferences and workshops that engaged with the questions surrounding public engagement and advocacy, both historically and […]
In July of 2019, The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies hosted the ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment at the University of Edinburgh. The theme of the congress was “Enlightenment Identities,” and ISECS welcomed a wide range of submissions on the topic. We are pleased to announce that 18th Connect was represented at this conference! […]
Come to the Liberate the Text ASECS Pre-Conference Workshop, beginning at 8:00 am on Wednesday, March 18, at the Westin Bonaventura, the San Fernando Room. The workshop agenda is available here: http://idhmc.tamu.edu/asecs/2015-workshop-agenda/ If you can’t make it to the whole day, do stop by to see Danielle Spratt and Tonya Howe show us how to teach […]
Philadelphia’s yellow fever epidemic of 1793 tested the civic and religious leaders of a city trying out its role as forerunner of liberty in the new Republic. Striving printer and publisher Mathew Carey became the self-appointed narrator of the epidemic, reporting what he witnessed, remediating anecdotes, and including lists of the recently deceased in his […]
We on the 18thConnect team are delighted that several 18thConnect users are working with and completing TypeWright texts, including the TypeWright featured texts! And we have received a flurry of corrected documents as the semester winds down. We look forward to getting feedback from so many users, via the linked Survey, which can be accessed […]
Greetings and Salutations! Due to some changes in our infrastructure, we’ve had a few glitches here and there over the past week. Thank you for the error emails! We are working on the problem, and hope to have it fixed soon. The good news is that the server and infrastructure for the TypeWright application is […]
Gale Cengage and the ECCO Text Creation Partnership have agreed to release 2,231 eighteenth-century texts to anyone who wishes to have them. You can search through those 18thCentury texts here at 18thConnect.org by word or phrase: go to the search page, select “ECCO” under “Other Digital Collections” as one of your search facets (by clicking […]
[18thConnect’s work with Gale/Cengage has been publicized by a press release, copied in this message. Users of 18thConnect already have access to citations from Gale’s ECCO catalog here.] Farmington Hills, Mich., Nov. 4, 2010 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and 18thConnect, a scholarly organization dedicated to forging links between eighteenth-century archives and today’s digital […]
Over a the NINES blog, a new feature of Collex (the software that powers both NINES and 18thConnect) has been unveiled: Zotero-friendly metadata is now served up for each object in the shared index. If you are a Firefox user and you’ve installed Zotero as a plug-in, a little folder icon will appear in the […]