NEWS
JAN. 11, 2024: USCT OF CLAY COUNTY: THEIR STORIES, THEIR WORDS
Join the Salus Populi team in the Woodneath Library Auditorium (Liberty, MO) for our first public talk!
**INCLEMENT WEATHER UPDATE: ONLINE VIEWING NOW AVAILABLE**
We look forward to tomorrow's program, which is STILL in person at Woodneath Library; however, due to inclement weather, we will offer an ADDITIONAL YouTube streaming option. If you are stuck at home due to the snow—or far from KC—please join us tomorrow at 6:30pm CT using this livestreaming link:
https://youtube.com/live/MnxXkBp9yMg
Stay safe and warm, friends!
JUNE 20, 2023: PDHI SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION
Michelle Cook and Riley Sutherland presented project updates at the Public Digital Humanities Institute Symposium. See our presentation here:
JUNE 2023: PUBLIC DIGITAL HUMANITIES INSTITUTE, ONE-YEAR UPDATE
The continued support of the PDHI provided us with guidance that was essential to further developing the Salus Populi Project. In the past year, we have:
• Written a training manual and trained a team of volunteer researchers
• Completed 95% of our foundational research
• Located and transcribed service records for 1,500 USCT servicemen
• Located 350+ pension files, with an estimate that this number will double to approximately 700 pension files by the project's completion
• Obtained and are processing the first set of pensions, which includes a sample from each county in the project.
• Formed a 501(c)(3) and installed a Board of Directors, who have extensive experience in history, education, research, and public engagement
• Established multiple social media platforms
• Begun the process of establishing relationships with archival and historical entities within the seven counties featured by our project.
We are currently hard at work developing a video to present at the PDHI Final Symposium. Interested in attending virtually? Register for free here.
JUNE 2022: PUBLIC DIGITAL HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
Michelle Cook and Riley Sutherland attended one week of intensive in-person training at the University of Kansas. Here, they learned about access, ownership, reuse, web-hosting, inclusive web design, data visualization, digital audio and video production, funding and marketing, and academic and community coalition-building.
They also collaborated with members of eleven other public digital humanities projects to confront challenges and develop best practices in oral history; community-grounded cartography; and participatory project model development.
Interested in learning more about PDHI? Click here.
DECEMBER 18, 2021: HEADSTONE PLACEMENT CEREMONY
After conducting extensive research, Michelle Cook secured headstones for three USCT servicemen: Allen Claybrook (68 Co. C), David Drake (67 Co. C), and Harry Slaughter (67 Co. C). The three veterans had previously rested in unmarked graves. Cook and other members of the Liberty Community recognized the three servicemen while placing wreaths for Wreaths Across America.
