Greetings, my name is Julia Wall and I am a rising sophomore at Gettysburg College, with a major in History and hopefully double major in Political Science as well as minor in Civil War Era Studies. I was interested in the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship because it worked with items in Special Collections and also brought in the field of Digital Humanities which I had never heard of before this opportunity. I think that digital humanities is a great way to provide information that is more readily and easily accessible for a more modern and digital audience.
My project is based off of the photograph album of William H. Harris, a West Point cadet that graduated with the June class of 1861, in Special Collections. William H. Harris kept up with almost every classmate and where they went during the American Civil War. Which leads me to wanting to tell the stories of these cadets through a digital yearbook and collect their stories, letters, etc to contribute to a bigger picture of who they were.
