ANDREW HITCHCOCK

Hidden Patterns of the Civil War

Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond

MALLET:

Classification

Tagging

Modeling

Optimization

• Fugitive Slave Ads • Topic >= 21.5

• 1862, 1864 • Union approaching Richmond

• Hiring/Wanted• 1862 Market

Stagnation

• Nationalism• War• Politics • Local • Advertisement

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“Visualizing Emancipation”

Legality Military Emancipation

• Emblems denote type • Overlapping data

Richmond City Events:

Projects overlap