The Howard Thurman Papers Project
This year the BU Center for the Humanities supported the Howard Thurman Papers Project, an effort to digitize the papers of Howard Washington Thurman at Boston University. Silvia Glick, a doctoral candidate at the Editorial Institute and Howard Thurman Papers Project Associate Managing Editor worked for the past year to significantly improve the Project’s website. The site now includes a chronology of events in Thurman’s life. Many of the events contain hyperlinks to websites with further information. Silvia Glick and Walter Earl Fluker also contributed to a grant proposal for a “Modern African American Freedom Struggle Digital Publishing cooperative,” which was approved under a program funded by Mellon Foundation and administered by NHPRC. This cooperative works to design a sustainable system for the digital publication and discovery of historical records in an effort to make historical records readily accessible to scholars, students, and the American people. In the future, the Howard Thurman Papers Project, as a member of the Digital Publishing Cooperative, hopes to pursue their goal of digitizing the five-volume documentary edition of the Papers of Howard Washington Thurman.
You can visit the website of the project here: http://www.bu.edu/htpp/