The Boston Public Library (BPL) is home to, "one of the largest and most important collections of abolitionist material in the United States," which includes thousands of letters, pamphlets, newspapers, and other materials from the early and mid-nineteenth century. BPL recently digitized this impressive collection on the platform Zooniverse and has enlisted citizen historians to transcribe these...

Last featured in the 2-12-2016 Scout Report, the Colored Conventions Project has continued to add new material. Recent additions include several new exhibitions, an academic journal article by David A. Joens entitled "Illinois Colored Conventions of the 1880s," and an excerpt from the Cincinnati Convention Proceedings of 1858. This fascinating project from scholars, students, librarians, and...