Two projects of eHistory, an initiative founded by Stephen Berry and Claudio Saunt of the UGA department of history and affiliated with the Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab, have launched websites in recent weeks and been written up in the national media.

CSI Dixie is headed by Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era in the department of history and Willson Center associate academic director for digital humanities. The web-based project uses 19th-century coroners’ records from South Carolina to create a detailed picture of how ordinary people died in the Victorian-era South, providing rare glimpses into suicide, homicide, infanticide, abortion, child abuse, spousal abuse, master-slave murder, and slave on slave violence.

The US News Map is a collaborative project by Berry and Saunt, Russell Professor of American History and chair of the department of history, with the Georgia Tech Research Institute. The interactive map allows users to see how awareness of key historical events and ideas spread across the country using data from nearly 2,000 U.S. newspapers – about 10 million pages – published between 1836 and 1924.

The GTRI’s informative article on the US News Map is here. The project has also been written about in the Washington Post, as well as in Slate and Mental Floss.

Slate has also published a piece on CSI Dixie, and the project was mentioned in The New York Times as well.

As part of the 2016 Global Georgia Initiative, the Willson Center presents Pictures of Us: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection, an exhibition in six venues on the University of Georgia campus and in the Athens community.

The Willson Center has announced its 2016 Global Georgia speaker series, which this year will also include an international symposium on the shared history of the U.S. South and Cuba and a multi-venue exhibition of photographs from The Do Good Fund collection.

Alan Rutenberg, Humanities Specialist in the Office of Research at the University of Tennessee, will offer two workshops on humanities fellowships at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on March 16-17, 2016.

The Willson Center and the Athens Fashion Collective will present a weekend of sustainable fashion events January 28-30, featuring Natalie Chanin, founder and designer of Alabama Chanin, and Georgia Sewn, a one-day expo of the regional fashion design industry.

The Willson Center mourns the passing of our benefactor, Jane Willson.

The Willson Center has organized or sponsored a variety of events for UGA’s 2015 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including film screenings in Athens and Atlanta, a tour of historic Oconee Hill Cemetery, a tailgate celebration before UGA’s football game with Kentucky, and an international conference on William Shakespeare and appropriation.

The UGA Arts Council has introduced the “All Arts Card” for students.

For $99, the card gives students admission to more than 60 concerts and plays with a full ticket price value of more than $2,000. The All Arts Card includes admission to performances at the UGA Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Department of Theatre and Film Studies and Department of Dance during the 2015-2016 academic year.

To order, go to http://pac.uga.edu/ and click on the student tab.

Many additional UGA Arts events are free to all students, including admission to the Georgia Museum of Art and galleries at Lamar Dodd School of Art, various events from The Georgia Review, UGA Press, Special Collections Libraries and more.

Go to arts.uga.edu to sign up for a monthly preview of events or follow UGA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more information on events year-round.

Provost Pamela Whitten touts digital humanities at UGA, including programs associated with the Willson Center’s DigiLab.

The Willson Center is profiled as a national model for fostering successful humanities communities as part of a new initiative by the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, the supporting foundation of the National Humanities Alliance.

The Willson Center, in partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries and the University of Georgia Press, will launch its new Digital Humanities Lab on the third floor of the main library as part of “DIGI@UGA” Day April 17.

Mapping Occupation, a recently launched web-based project by University of Georgia and City University of New York historians, provides the first detailed look at where the United States sent its troops to occupy the South after the American Civil War.