On The Line tells the story of schooling and housing boundary lines that have divided metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut over the past century, as well as the struggles of ordinary families and civil rights activists who have sought to cross over, redraw, or erase these lines.
Preview our open web-book, where readers can freely access and comment on the text, explore the interactive digital archives, and share stories and photos of their personal experiences with the lines. This work-in-progress illustrates how we use web technology to bridge two parts of the process: historical research and writing.
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A longer web-book edition will be released in 2011-12, along with a text-only print edition.
Our collaboration by historians, geographers, librarians, students, and technology specialists at Trinity College and MAGIC (the University of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center), and additional partner organizations, has been supported by a digital humanities fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
