Featured Project
People of the Founding Era; a Prosopographical Approach
An award from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation has allowed Documents Compass to begin work on a scholarly resource to create a biographical glossary combined with a group study (prosopography) of Americans born between 1713 (the end of Queen Anne’s War) and 1815 (the end of the Napoleonic Wars
People of the Founding Era (PFE) is be an important new scholarly resource. It consists of both a biographical dictionary and a platform for the study of groups, also known as prosopography. Readers will be able to move from the individual to the group and back again.
The project has begun by extracting biographies from the documentary editions of the founding era such as the Papers of George Washington, the Adams Papers, the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, and the Letters of Benjamin Rush. The intention is to include as many and various sources as possible. more »
Additional Projects
Transcribing the Founding Fathers Online
Transcribing the Founding Fathers Online is a NHPRC-funded grant pilot project to transcribe unpublished papers from the Founding Era. more »
The Pinckney-Horry Digital Edition
Documents Compass is providing consultation on the development of a documentary edition of the papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney more »
The George Antheil Digital Edition
Collected Papers: (1900-1959). A modernist composer, George Antheil lived in Europe during the years between the end of World War I and the rise of Hitler. more »