After a summer of transcribing, encoding, and annotating digitized records from habeas corpus petitions and freedom suits, eight scholars from across the U.S. discussed their work and answered questions at a roundtable on August 2.
The Digital Legal Research Lab is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Faculty members Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas of the Department of History lead the lab in collaboration with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
Students learned archival research methods, data collection and processing, transcription, and encoding techniques while being mentored. Their work is added to the digital humanities projects “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West” and “O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family.”
