#telegrams

huntingtonlibrary:

We need your help!

We have nearly 16,000 U.S. Civil War telegrams in our archives, and now you can help transcribe them! New crowdsourcing project “Decoding the Civil War” is a joint effort of The Huntington, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,North Carolina State University’s Digital History and Pedagogy Project, and citizen science site Zooniverse.

Read more on VERSO.

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“Decoding the Civil War” landing page on Zooniverse.
Transcription gif from the “Decoding the Civil War” tutorial.

What a great project!