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A new project, led by the Kentucky Climate Consortium (KYCC) research team at the University of Kentucky, is proving that oral histories can provide an intimate view of our shifting world.

Restoring an ancient library from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius is now closer to reality. To highlight the progress, this is the first in a four-video series featuring Brent Seales, UK Alumni Professor in the Department of Computer Science and his Digital Restoration Initiative team.

Off the coast of North Carolina, archaeologists are excavating Blackbeard's sunken flagship in the waters near Bogue Banks and Fort Macon. James Hower, Ph.D., a research professor at the UK Center for Applied Energy Research, is part of the research team.

Through her research, Pearl James, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, is uncovering new layers to the study of World War I.

The computer science professor is leading a global competition to read the charred scrolls after demonstrating that an artificial intelligence program can successfully extract letters and symbols from X-ray images from unrolled papyri too fragile to unroll.

Sarah Dorpinghaus is the director of Digital Strategies and Technologies at UK Libraries. She is a trained archivist helping communities protect their history and focuses on digital collections and their underlying technology systems.

Anastasia Curwood, associate professor of history in the College of Arts & Sciences, discusses her new book “Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics”

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, provides a deeper look at the history of Halloween.

The T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences helps tell the critical story of slavery in two upcoming PBS documentaries — "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" and "Becoming Frederick Douglass."

More than 60,000 pages of Fayette County’s historical property records containing information about enslaved people from the late 1700s through 1865 will soon be available to the public online.