Matthew F. Delmont  0:03  
Hi, I'm Matt Delmont. This is a screencast walking you through how to use Black Quotidian, a digital project from Stanford University Press. When you begin with the project, you'll land here on the landing page. When you click Enter, visitors arrive at the project overview page, where they'll find four options: introduction, history, themes and archive. Visitors can navigate the project in different ways. Those who are interested in the project's methodology, theoretical frameworks, and scholarly contributions should start with the introduction pathway.

Matthew F. Delmont  1:02  
The three pages in this pathway lead into the history pathway, which discusses the important role the Black Press Black Press played in advancing Negro History week and later Black History Month. And in most of the pages in the project, you'll find newspaper articles that are embedded here and you can scroll through them like this.

Matthew F. Delmont  1:34  
The three pages on this pathway lead into the themes pathway. Visitors who are less interested in questions of method, theory, and history are encouraged to go directly to the themes pathway from the overview page.

Matthew F. Delmont  2:09  
The themes pathway includes eight options: women, arts and culture, civil rights and Black freedom, sports, politics and voting, youth, racial violence, and military and veterans.

Matthew F. Delmont  2:41  
Each of these thematic pathways includes between 25 and 50 web pages, each of which highlights one or more historical newspaper articles related to that theme. So this is in the women's pathway, and I'll click on just one example.

Matthew F. Delmont  3:06  
This is an example of one of the daily posts of which there are over 365. This is from Shirley Chisholm's run for president 1972. Many of the pages in addition to having the PDFs embedded also have video clips that are embedded

Shirley Chisolm  3:37  
[video playing] "...bosses or fat cats or special interests. I stand here now, without endorsements from many big name politicians or celebrities, or any other kind of prop. I do not intend to offer to you the tired and glib cliches that for too long have been accepted part of our political life. I am the candidate of the people of America."

Matthew F. Delmont  4:15  
Visitors are interested in browsing the daily posts more randomly can select archive from the overview page. And I pre-loaded this page because it takes a while to load. Here you'll find all of the 365 posts organized by month.

Matthew F. Delmont  4:43  
Visitors can either click on one of the thumbnail images, or I'd recommend starting with the month archived posts. So they could get on January or kind of post or February archived post. Visitors can view all the posts for that month. This is an example of what the January archived posts look like.

Matthew F. Delmont  5:30  
Once visitors have selected a post, they'll find a navigation button on the bottom of the page that will take them to the next page.

Matthew F. Delmont  6:10  
To go back at any point, visitors can either click on the compass icon in the toolbar to find recently viewed pages

Matthew F. Delmont  6:24  
or use the back button on their browser. To return to the overview page or to a specific pathway, visitors can select the Table of Contents icon in the top left of the toolbar on the top of the page.

Matthew F. Delmont  6:49  
Clicking on the looking glass icon in the toolbar at the top of the page will allow visitors to search for specific people, places, events, or dates.

Matthew F. Delmont  7:09  
There are over 365 daily posts, and I don't expect that visitors will view every page in this project. Rather than encouraging visitors to read cover-to-cover as though we're a book. The product is designed to immerse visitors and lure them deeper and deeper into the material. Whether visitors spend 15 minutes or 15 weeks with Black Quotidian, I want them to come away knowing more about African American history and newspapers. Thank you.

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