An image database to support the study of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture.
All projects with the following field and/or DH method:
History
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations documents Ojibwe responses to Christianity through multimedia storytelling that spans the early Canadian colonial expansion of Treaty 3 territory into the present.
Visualizing the Americas
Visualizing the Americas uses official archives to create a decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today.
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform for fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
Decima
DECIMA is a powerful GIS mapping tool that allows historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
Under Layered Suspicion
Under Layered Suspicion identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that together demonstrate potential biases in Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audits of Muslim-led charities.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
Website: https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Electronic Archive “Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat” (PSDS), launched in 2015, includes the Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals, Electronic Editions of selected...
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A bibliography of more than 1.45 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
The Book and the Silk Roads
This project analyzes premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory connects scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Canada Declassified
Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
Brothels and historic sites researched by students in Professor Laurie K. Bertram’s seminar “The Oldest Profession in Canada”, Department of History, University of Toronto