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A new app allows medievalists, aspiring medievalists, or medievally minded scriveners to try their hand at transcribing 26 manuscripts on their smartphones. “I’ve been looking for an awesome medieval ...

Recently, I transcribed a journal kept by Captain Robert Bartlett, written during the last voyage of the Karluk, the flagship of Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition. The ...

The Newberry Library in Chicago is home to some 80,000 documents pertaining to religion during the early modern period, a time of sweeping social, political, and cultural change spanning the late ...

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Thousands of people are spending hours transcribing millions of pages from the Library of Congress. NBC's Gary Grumbach spoke with some of the volunteers who are transcribing and preserving the works ...