This crowd-sourcing transcription project is a collaboration between historians, social scientists and the African American Civil War Museum. Our goals are to improve our knowledge of the African Americans who fought for freedom in the American Civil War, to provide descendants of the soldiers with access to information on their ancestors, and to present students of history with primary documents from a pivotal moment in African American history. To do this we are building a comprehensive database of the estimated 200,000 soldiers who formed the United States Colored Troops (USCT) (see FAQ for more info on the USCT).
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/usct/african-american-civil-war-soldiers/about/research
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2018
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The completed database will be presented on the website of the African American Civil War Museum. This website will allow teachers and students to explore African American history, by presenting them with interactive maps and a searchable database of all the soldiers.
Zooniverse
United States of America — Academia
https://www.zooniverse.org
the African American Civil War Museum (Washington D.C.), the National Archives and Records Administration (Washington D.C.), Fold 3 (Salt Lake City, UT) and the Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Georgia (Atlanta, GA)
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