Sponsored by Dinsmore Family Wealth Planning.
You find a bundle of family letters in the attic or have an
1800s diary in your desk drawer. How should you share that with your family or
local history community? With more than a decade of experience in federally
funded editing and publishing projects in print and online, Patrick Lewis will
give step-by-step instructions about transcription, annotation, physical or
digital publishing, and long-term preservation of historical materials. Whether
you have a single postcard or a family archive, this program will give you the
tools and knowledge to get started on your transcription project.
Dr. Patrick Lewis is the Director of Collections
& Research at the Filson Historical Society and co-editor of Ohio Valley
History journal. A Trigg County native, he graduated from Transylvania University
and holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Kentucky. He previously
worked for the National Park Service and the Kentucky Historical Society and
has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, and the James Graham Brown Foundation. Lewis is author of For
Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War
(University Press of Kentucky, 2015) and co-editor of Playing At War:
Identity & Memory in American Civil War Era Video Games, under contract
with LSU Press.