Welcome to Humanities 100: Digging into the Digital! This new course is designed as a project-based introduction to digital humanities tools and methods of analysis.
Our subject this term is James Merrill Linn, one of the first graduates at Bucknell (class of 1855) and a captain in the Grand Army of the Republic during the American Civil War. Linn’s family left his life papers to Bucknell’s Archive. Because of the sheer quantity of notes, diaries, letters, drawings, business accounts and documents we can only focus on a small sliver of Linn’s life. We will therefore address a period of two months during 1862 when Linn took part in a military campaign in North Carolina under the leadership of General Ambrose Burnside.