{"id":38556,"date":"2016-08-09T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38556"},"modified":"2016-08-09T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:34","slug":"an-online-history-of-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38556","title":{"rendered":"An Online History of Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following excerpt is from an article posted August 8, 2016 at the news.fiu.edu website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/islandluminous.fiu.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Haiti_An_Island_Luminous_250pw.jpg\" alt=\"Haiti_An_Island_Luminous_250pw\" width=\"250\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38558\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just a day after he graduated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sipa.fiu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs<\/a> with a Ph.D. in history, Adam Silvia MA \u201809 started a new job with the United States Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Five years spent archiving centuries of Haitian history may have helped with his application.<\/p>\n<p>Silvia, who wrote his dissertation on Haiti, created a digital archive, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/islandluminous.fiu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti: An Island Luminous<\/a><\/em>, that combines rare books, manuscripts and photographs from libraries and archives in Haiti with commentary by more than 100 scholars from 75 universities around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.fiu.edu\/2016\/08\/green-school-grad-completes-online-archive-of-haitian-history\/102854\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent quite a bit of time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/islandluminous.fiu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Haiti: An Island Luminou<\/em>s<\/a> website, and found it to be fascinating. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/researchbuzz.me\/2016\/08\/09\/india-worms-haiti-history-health-research-more-tuesday-buzz-august-9-2016\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+researchbuzz%2Fmain+%28ResearchBuzz%29\" target=\"_blank\">ResearchBuzz<\/a> for the Heads-Up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article posted August 8, 2016 at the news.fiu.edu website. Just a day after he graduated from the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs with a Ph.D. in history, Adam Silvia MA <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38556\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  An Online History of Haiti<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38559,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556\/revisions\/38559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}