Humanities
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New York Performing Arts Library Gets $60 Million Gift for Preservation
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has received a $60 million anonymous donation, the largest in its history, timed to its 60th anniversary. The funds will support a five-year effort to digitize, preserve, and catalog its 15-million-item archive of rare recordings, manuscripts, production photos, and other materials. Priority will go to fragile…
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HathiTrust receives grant to deliver AI-enabled access to digital books
HathiTrust received a $5 million, five-year Mellon Foundation grant, partnering with Northeastern University Library and Authors Alliance, to develop responsible AI tools for discovering and analyzing its 19 million digitized volumes. The Transparent Books project will improve metadata, enable interactive search, and provide verified resources for scholarly and public-interest use. https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/hathitrust-receives-grant-to-deliver-ai-enabled-access-to-digital-books/
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Schmidt Sciences Awards $11M For AI In Humanities
Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million to up to 23 research teams worldwide to develop and apply artificial intelligence tools tailored to humanities fields including archaeology, history, literature, and related disciplines. The Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) aims to overcome limitations of current AI models, which are trained primarily on contemporary data and modern…
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Daodejing | An online teaching translation – Version 1.4 (2010–2025) | By Laozi, Translated by Robert Eno | Arsinoe Library Edition
Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 Robert Eno’s Daodejing is a free online teaching translation of the 81-chapter Chinese classic traditionally attributed to Laozi. Version 1.4, updated through 2025, presents the Chinese title and text alongside English translation, an extended introduction, and a glossary of key terms. Eno frames the work as a classroom resource rather than…
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Abbeville Institute – dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition
The history of southern culture is as important to the world as the history of many entire nations. Southern Culture represents a significant part of the American lifestyle we know and love today. However, many modern historians have tried to reduce the entirety of southern history to only slavery and treason. Our purpose at the…
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HorrorBabble – original audiobooks of classic horror and fiction
HorrorBabble is a small, UK-based production company, dedicated to the production of audio horror in the form of audiobooks, dramatic readings, audio dramas and podcasts. They produce readings of classic works in the public domain, and, wherever possible, contemporary works. They are available across several platforms, including YouTube, Bandcamp, Audible, and Spotify. Since November 2015, they recorded 500+ audiobooks,…
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast 三国演义
Episode 000 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast serves as an introduction to one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels, covering the historical period from 184 to 280 AD spanning the collapse of the Han dynasty to the founding of the Jin dynasty. Host John Zhu explains his mission to make the epic…