Thank you @zooniverse.bsky.social team for making sure that the “force of nature” (@jimccasey1.bsky.social) #DouglassDay is possible despite server overload issues. 8,000+ participants is so amazing!
13.02.2026 18:03 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Douglass was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century! Here he is in images with others. We love seeing this for #DouglassDay! @douglassday.bsky.social!
13.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Resolved, That the colored voters of this State do not consider themselves under eternal obligations to a party which favors us as a class only in proportion as it is driven by its own necessity.
#DouglassDay transcribing...this resolution still feels apt in 2026!
13.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Live from Oklahoma! #douglassday
13.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Khadijah, A young volunteer helping bring Douglass Day to life. She’s 14 already dreaming about college and giving back to her community.This is what early access& representation look like
@douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social
#DouglassDay #AllRightsForAll #FutureLeaders #blackexcellence
13.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
All rights for all buttons
The fourteenth amendment is such a critically important topic for #DouglassDay this year.
13.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A librarian stands in front of large screen that displays digitized Black history material while a room full of event attendees look on.
Big news for #DouglassDay! We officially unveiled a stunning new gallery of Black History materials in Newberry Digital Collections at our event! From our stacks to your screen—check out the new gallery today:
📍 publications.newberry.org/gallery/?g=2...
13.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Plush Frederick Douglass and bouquet of flowers for Douglass Day event
In the learning lab transcribing with Frederick Douglass and friends.
Text from State Convention of Colored Men highlighting that All Governments derive their power from the consent of the governed.
@douglassday.bsky.social Reporting from Mary Church Terrell Main Library at Oberlin #DouglassDay
13.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing! Waving back!
13.02.2026 19:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Douglass Day Cake
Transcription in process
Door with Douglass Day flyer
Douglass Day Celebration playlist
Happy Douglass Day! It was a great time participating in the national transcribe-a-thon with a bunch of my students at the Trinity #Douglassday events. Loved the @douglassday.bsky.social playlist and seeing the amazing cake from a local baker!
13.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
People transcribing. “Blues at Sunrise” by Albert King on the projector.
If you’re looking for Spotify alternatives, at Tisch Library, we’re streaming our own playlist from the music online database. #DouglassDay
13.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Cake decorated with pink, red and white roses with the words All Rights for All.
Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!
13.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
Participants at Douglass Day Transcribing event sitting at tables, with laptops, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Today we're celebrating #DouglassDay with @douglassday.bsky.social, students from Loyola Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and volunteers around the world. You could hear a pin-drop in the room during the powerful reading of “Why Hold a Colored Convention?” by Hassan El-Amin.
13.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
The snacks table at our event
Books were raffling off
A picture of one of our transcriptions
All people chiming in from all over the world!!
We LOVE @douglassday.bsky.social #douglassday at Kenyon College #kenyon!! Transcription! Cake! Books to raffle off! What could be more awesome? So excited to see Minnesota, PA, Texas, and more of our students’ home states in the docs!
13.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Kristen Mapes (Interim Director of Digital Humanities) and Justin Wadland (Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab) are cutting and distributing cake for Douglass Day.
@kmapesy.bsky.social and Justin Wadland cutting the cake for #DouglassDay in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the MSU Main Library!
13.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
first subject set complete! #DouglassDay
13.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Newspaper clipping in zooniverse. Reads: and others.
Mr. Conrad's frequent cries for
"lubricating oil" brought the greenbacks but slowly yet we think the people of Cincinnati supported the Convention.
No context #DouglassDay snippet.
13.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We have a vegan chocolate cake too, but I feel like we're falling down here compared to some of you overachievers. It tastes good though. 😍 #DouglassDay
13.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Groups of people at three tables transcribing on their laptops.
Great to see a core group of people turn out early on a Friday to help transcribe documents related to the Colored Conventions for this year's Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon in the Marymount Institute at LMU. #DouglassDay
(photo posted with permission of participants)
13.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 150 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0
5. Moulin Rouge photo
6. Welfare Rights Protest in Vegas
7. Tupac and Afeni Shakur
8. Douglass Day Cake 2023
Notice also the facade of the church that hosted that first Colored Convention. Happy #DouglassDay Everyone!
13.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
GOTV table
Buttons and cookies
Also at Swarthmore, our Get Out the Vote is registering voters, our Makerspace laser cut cookies, and our Outreach Librarian made buttons for @douglassday.bsky.social #DouglassDay
13.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Ho @douglassday.bsky.social this is @unlv.edu here at UNLV Libraries with a cake from Cake Designs Las Vegas featuring the cover page of the first Colored Convention in the West & a timeline of Black American History of the West…ending with our award winning cake from 2024!
13.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
A giant pile of dough and whipped cream on a cake plate, liberally dusted in powdered sugar.
Happy Douglass Day to all who celebrate! our cake this year is a karpatka: a choux dough filled with bourbon pastry cream, cherry rosemary compote, and a layer of dark chocolate ganache. Brandy snaps around the edge spell out “happy bday!”. #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social
13.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 38 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
#DouglassDay The beautiful cake in honor of Transcribe 2026 for Douglass Day at USM (university of southern Mississippi) @douglassday.bsky.social
13.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A white frosted cake decorated with balloons, sprinkles, and text reading Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
Two Black women students transcribe a document together while eating cake
Nine students sit in a classroom working on transcriptions
Several students work on transcriptions together, fortified by cake
Thanks to everyone who joined us for #DouglassDay! As of this evening, over 1000 pages have been transcribed by over 800 volunteers. We’re so glad our students and faculty got to contribute to that number! Enjoy these photos of the celebration. #DouglassDay2024
14.02.2024 23:31 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
A pink post-it that reads: “I was wild to think that I am transcribing words that were written by people living so long ago”
A blue post-it that reads: “This was a really good experience. It was challenging but in a good way!”
An orange post-it that reads: “it’s like Wheel of Fortune on expert mode! (Still had a great time)”
An orange post-it that reads: “I had a great time! Although the writings are hard to figure out it is a fun challenge. It is also cool to see the difference in language.”
And here are a few of the reflections our participants had after transcribing! #DouglassDay #DouglassDay2024
14.02.2024 23:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Head of Digital Scholarship Services at Michigan State University Libraries and lead for Digital Scholarship Lab.
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Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan.
Educator, poet. Author of What Spirits Return (Kelsay Books, 2019). Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar at MS DH Hub. PhD in English and Creative Writing from University of Southern Mississippi.
Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
Digital Humanist, Public Historian, and Analyst working towards the ethical and creative application of tech. in edu. settings. Cat lover, Avid crafter, Bad Bunny enthusiast.
DH librarian w/ interests in text encoding, language learning, librettos, pedagogy, and digital libraries. She/her. Profile pic: Hollyhocks and Cats from the Met. Re me: https://francescagiannetti.com.
Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
The IRIS Center at SIUE is a place for students, faculty, staff, and community members to collaborate on research, teaching, and community engagement in the digital humanities.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Home to @ccp-org.bsky.social, Black Women's Organizing Archive, and @DouglassDay.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/digblk
DouglassDay.org | #DouglassDay
Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. A day of love and collective action for Black history & archives!
Colored Conventions Project is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more.
ColoredConventions.org
supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
dh, digital culture, ethics @ Arizona State's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. she/her. #altac and interested in issues at the intersection of tech, justice, and the humanities.
The MSU Museum is an innovative and experimental collaboratory that exists to catalyze creativity. Here, people can openly explore, express, and experiment with ideas across disciplines and interests, and indulge their natural curiosity about the world.
former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (MSHL/CDHA) promotes the development of and access to infrastructure in #DH.
DARIAH-IS/CDHA - The DARIAH National Coordinating Institution for Iceland
linktr.ee/mshl_cdha
The 11th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will be an in person event at Michigan State University April 13th, a synchronous virtual event April 14th-15th, & in person at Universidad de Monterrey, México April 17th, 2026.
https://msuglobaldh.org/
PhD student using a critical digital humanities methodology, including natural language processing and Bayesian data analysis, to study well-being in 19th century letters and diaries. #lifewriting #wellbeing #Bayes #DH
Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities
Department of Humanities
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
https://www.unive.it/vedph
https://www.instagram.com/ve_dph/
Ancient Queens in Early Modern Drama 👑📚 | Book History + DH | PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon
