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The Design of the Built Environment: The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus and Its Context
No full textKevin J. Hinders’s The Design of the Built Environment offers an exploration of the architectural, cultural, and historical development of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus and its surrounding context. Structured around thematic walking tours, the manuscript examines architectural principles and then uses the campus and its surroundings to illustrate the concepts. It delves into the evolution of public spaces, technical design considerations, and the influence of local, regional, and national planning. Through case studies, historical analysis, and design theory, Hinders illustrates how built environments reflect collective values, cultural shifts, and functional needs. The work emphasizes experiential learning and encourages readers to engage with the built world through observation, reflection, and spatial understanding.
Work on this textbook was partially funded by the 2025 Faculty OER Incentive Program, funded by the University Library and the Office of the Provost.
Accessibility improvements for this publication supported by the Robert and Kay Merrick Family Endowment Fund.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/wd.31
The Design of the Built Environment: The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus and Its Context
No full textKevin J. Hinders’s The Design of the Built Environment offers an exploration of the architectural, cultural, and historical development of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus and its surrounding context. Structured around thematic walking tours, the manuscript examines architectural principles and then uses the campus and its surroundings to illustrate the concepts. It delves into the evolution of public spaces, technical design considerations, and the influence of local, regional, and national planning. Through case studies, historical analysis, and design theory, Hinders illustrates how built environments reflect collective values, cultural shifts, and functional needs. The work emphasizes experiential learning and encourages readers to engage with the built world through observation, reflection, and spatial understanding.
Work on this textbook was partially funded by the 2025 Faculty OER Incentive Program, funded by the University Library and the Office of the Provost.
Accessibility improvements for this publication supported by the Robert and Kay Merrick Family Endowment Fund.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/wd.31
Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: Social Networks of Rejected Applicants
No full text“These denied enrollment narratives will become an important resource for scholars and non-academics engaged in the study of Black Cherokee people’s collective pursuit for legal belonging and self-making. They point to new avenues of study for Black Cherokee histories but also for Black Native experiences in the four other Southeastern Nations (Choctaw, Muscogee/Creek, Seminole, and Chickasaw Nations). Hai In Jo’s Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen is a needed addition across Black Studies and Native and Indigenous Studies, and because it presents new intertextual possibilities for the reexamination of Black Native peoples’ experiences, the project will be useful for multiple communities engaged in the study of Black social and political life.”
Eve Eure, Lehman College, CUNY
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cherokee Freedmen—the people of African descent formerly enslaved by the Cherokees—and their descendants were required to apply for enrollment on Cherokee census rolls, administered by the United States, to receive land allotments, annuities, and benefits as Cherokee citizens. A chronological examination of the lives of rejected Freedmen applicants through their interview transcripts, combined with a non-linear visualization of their social networks, this project revitalizes the rejected Cherokee Freedmen applicants who are multiply marginalized from the Cherokee Nation, the United States, and the Cherokee Freedmen community. This visualization further aims to offer a less hierarchical experience of digitized archival materials. This project also explores the goals, process, and limitations of the Cherokee census rolls to contextualize how the Cherokee Freedmen status has been determined by a particular racial, economic, and bureaucratic dynamics within the Cherokee Nation.
This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.26
DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Collection on Digital Humanities and Book History
Get PDFDigital humanities and book history are both potentially expansive tools for advocacy, activism, and recovery work in our current moment. This collection extends an invitation to readers to reflect on power, privilege, and potential in the wider fields of digital humanities and history of the book. Contributions from an international community of scholars explore the limitations of digital collections, the potential of digital methodologies to enrich bibliographic research, and the pleasures and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches to book history scholarship
Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era
No full text“Shining Stars…is a welcome and important addition to a growing constellation of projects focusing on Black women authors, Black women’s intellectual history, and Black women’s writing during the Civil War Era. Broadnax’s opening gambit, “it is unusual to anticipate the existence of publications written by African Americans” from the Civil War era, echoes a tradition of bibliographers challenging scholarly presumptions about absences….Broadnax has provided a wonderful service to the fields of African American literary studies, Civil War studies, print culture, and digital humanities.”
Derrick R. Spires, University of Delaware
This project capitalizes on the discovery of lesser-known works by African American women of the US Civil War era (1861-1865). The documents, all available in digital format, consist of an array of various types of fiction and nonfiction. Their writings provide a unique perspective on the trials and triumphs of the enslaved. Their texts also reflect their post-slavery politics, spirituality, and activism. This remarkable collection of documents enables users to acquire new information regarding African Americans that has traditionally been omitted. The project also provides extensive primary sources pertaining to the authors. All the online resources are full text and free.
This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.27
Peripheral Narratives and Knowledge Production in Soviet and Contemporary Central Asia, 1917–Present
Get PDFOver the past decades, Central Asian Studies has become a rapidly growing academic field within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite increased international academic attention, Central Asian scholars remain strikingly underrepresented in English-language published works on this region. Peripheral Narratives and Knowledge Production in Soviet and Contemporary Central Asia, 1917-Present examines the roots of knowledge production and preservation in Central Asia, and presents new perspectives on the roles of knowledge repositories and institutions in shaping collective memory.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.24
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Critical Edition
No full textOne hundred years after its initial publication, Daniel G. Tracy provides the first critical edition of Anita Loos\u27s iconic novel about a globetrotting flapper, her best friend, and her many suitors that inspired later stage and film adaptations. The text of the novel includes a restoration of higher quality reproductions of Ralph Barton\u27s magazine illustrations (and one never published in the book format) alongside explanations of historical references. In addition, Tracy provides historical and biographical essays that fill out the context of the novel\u27s production, a full account of reviews and later sequels or adaptations of the novel, and interactive maps of the many locations.
Single-blind peer review provided by ModNets. ModNets has the dual goals of providing a vetting community for digital modernist scholarship and a technological infrastructure to support development of scholarly projects and access to scholarship on modernist literature and culture.
Funding in support of this project and establishment of workflows for digital editions from IOPN is courtesy of a University of Illinois Library Strategic Initiatives award.
Accessibility improvements for this publication supported by The Robert and Kay Merrick Family Endowment Fund.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/wd.13
Decoding Cultural Literacy: Rhetorically Analyzing Everyday Media for Professional Writers
No full text"With the goal of improving cultural literacy among writers, this new digital publication positions writing as an active process in the development of cultural competency, thus effectively establishing the connection between rhetorical analysis and improved cultural literacy. Fowlkes’s method for writing rhetorical analysis is especially important considering the public’s increasing access to cultural performances across various media platforms and the growing necessity to competently engage with diverse perspectives and experiences….Decoding Cultural Literacy provides a much-needed contribution to the intersection of writing, rhetoric, and media studies."
Taryn K. Myers, West Chester University
Go beyond the surface level in reading and producing persuasive, yet efficacious writing. For writers looking to engage with everyday media, cultural background knowledge is essential to understanding the depths of any media and thus interpreting its message. This handbook helps writers learn what cultural literacy is, how to critically analyze media, and then create writing which appeals to one’s own authorial credibility. The key takeaway of Decoding Cultural Literacy is to help analyze everyday media through the rhetorical analysis process, and then engage in a recursive dance by using the same rhetorical steps to write works which are culturally literate and effective for your chosen audience. These same steps for writers will then be applied for moving forward into a professional writing setting and showing how to transfer these skills for the everyday writer, to a professional writing career.
This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.30.
Accessibility improvements for this publication supported by The Robert and Kay Merrick Family Endowment Fund
Peripheral Narratives and Knowledge Production in Soviet and Contemporary Central Asia, 1917–Present
Get PDFOver the past decades, Central Asian Studies has become a rapidly growing academic field within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite increased international academic attention, Central Asian scholars remain strikingly underrepresented in English-language published works on this region. Peripheral Narratives and Knowledge Production in Soviet and Contemporary Central Asia, 1917-Present examines the roots of knowledge production and preservation in Central Asia, and presents new perspectives on the roles of knowledge repositories and institutions in shaping collective memory.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.24
Beyond NOLA: Exploring Zora Neale Hurston in Bogalusa, Louisiana\u27s Magic City
No full text“The extent of information provided in each section is immense, and the combination of archival materials, historical maps, photographs, letters, and segments of Hurston’s writing work together to center the city as an important site not just for her research, but also as a location that provided employment opportunities for countless other Black Americans, including laborers, professional class, and entrepreneurs. Through the combination of these elements, Beyond NOLA brings the active Black community of Bogalusa to life….Beyond NOLA is an innovative digital humanities project that creatively expands the scholarship on Hurston.”
Jessina Emmert, University of Kansas
Beyond NOLA examines the influence of Bogalusa, an industrial town seventy miles north of New Orleans (NOLA), on Zora Neale Hurston’s research in hoodoo and African American culture. Her field notes and letters to Langston Hughes shed light on how her experiences of traveling alone in the American South and engaging with the people of Bogalusa at the turn of the twentieth century shaped her research and potentially resonated in her later literary production. Leveraging archival, cartographic, and literary research presented in a multimodal digital platform, this project acknowledges Bogalusa’s significance in her life’s work, highlights the residents and racial environment she encountered while traveling to and through the city, and ultimately expands scholarship on Hurston\u27s time spent in Louisiana beyond New Orleans.
This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.28.
Accessibility improvements for this publication supported by The Robert and Kay Merrick Family Endowment Fund