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The Oliver Otis Howard Papers Online

Digitization project
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The Howard Papers offer insights into key moments in nineteenth-century American political, social, legal, intellectual, cultural, and military history. Digitization will make the collection much more widely available in a format that works to preserve its integrity. As a result the collection will be able to inspire and guide scholarship in many disciplines far generations to come. -Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School.

0.0. Howard work places him at the crux of one of the most important problems of the Civil War era: to understand how the nation's trajectory toward slave emancipation and black citizenship foundered in the years after the Civil War. I have no doubt that this digitization project will give scholars a new and much welcome, opportunity to work more closely with the Howard papers and incorporate that work into their research. -Professor Nina Silber, Boston University

The collection, which spans the antebellum period through the turn of the twentieth century allows scholars to study the development of one of the most intriguing individuals in American history...Howard was an influential figure whose legacy covers numerous fields of study. His career, observations, and insight offer a treasure trove of material for Western, Civil War, African American, and political historians. -Professor Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Angelo State University

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A project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission,
the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, and Bowdoin College

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