The John Bigelow Collection

Edited by Union College students Ginde Baker, Denali Douglas, and Julian Zapata-Hall

Through digital tools and methods using digitized nineteenth-century letters from Special Collections, students explored the historical material of the John Bigelow Papers through data visualization, including network analysis, mapping, and text analysis.

​​Summer IDEaS is a library-taught and paid student research opportunity whose purpose is to introduce a small cohort of Union College students from across the disciplines to the digital humanities, a field that aims to use digital tools and methods to explore questions from the humanities, as well as critique technology using humanist methods.