Mapping Freedom
Hayden Wright
What's this all about?
The Mapping Freedom REU Internship provides students with an opportunity to engage with and learn about a multitude of fields combining Computer Science, Library Sciences, Digital Humanities, and Geography.
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Over the course of the 8 week long program, students utilize the CWRGM archive to analyze and create a research project from letters sent to the Governor of Mississippi from the Civil War and through Reconstruction.
The project expects students to write a research paper with an accompanying presentation. Students are also taught in GIS in order to map data for use in their individual projects.
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This website contains the data, presentation, and research paper created by me, Hayden Wright, and includes a blog cataloging my weeks spent with the program.
