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- Jul 29 In Memory of Lt. Col. Ronald J. Martin, USMC, Retired
- Jul 29 Transcribing Can Be An Unexpected Research Method
- Jul 5 Community Transcription – Sixty-Two Months
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March
- Mar 23 Transcriber Interview: Scribe of Poland
- Mar 17 Celebrate the Five Year Anniversary of Community Transcription!
- Mar 1 Community Transcription – Fifty-Eight Months
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December
- Dec 17 Transcribe This: Williams Declines Promotion
- Dec 3 Community Transcription – Fifty-Five Months
November
- Nov 19 Transcribe This: Coats, Vests, Overalls, Etc. Needed by Soldiers
- Nov 3 Community Transcription â Fifty-Four Months
October
- Oct 22 Transcribe This: Confidential Act of Congress
- Oct 5 Community Transcription â Fifty-Three Months
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July
June
May
- May 12 Transcribe this: Creation of a School for Indian Children
- May 4 Community Transcription â Forty-Eight Months
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January
- Jan 14 Transcribe this: Maria Butler to President Washington
- Jan 7 Community Transcription – Forty-Four Months
2014
December
- Dec 16 Complete a Transcription: History of a Canadian Refugee
- Dec 2 Community Transcription – Forty-Three Months
November
October
- Oct 24 Help Complete a Transcription: Keeping Up Appearances at Fort Niagara
- Oct 14 What is that word?
- Oct 1 Community Transcription – Forty-One Months
September
July
- Jul 31 Community Transcription – Thirty-Nine Months
- Jul 7 Help Complete a Transcription: Letters from Judith Sargent Murray
- Jul 1 Community Transcription – Thirty-Eight Months
May
- May 29 Community Transcription – Thirty-Seven Months
- May 9 Help complete a Transcription! Treaty of New York with the Creek Nation of Indians
- May 1 Community Transcription – Thirty-Six Months
April
March
February
- Feb 27 Community Transcription – Thirty-Four Months
- Feb 19 Request for Transcribers: Eli Whitney and the manufacture of muskets for the War Department
January
- Jan 29 Community Transcription – Thirty-Three Months
- Jan 24 Request for Transcribers: Beginning of the Quasi War with France, May 1798
2013
November
October
September
- Sep 17 Community Transcription-Twenty Nine Months In
- Sep 12 Nominated Document Spotlight-Oversight, or Overcharge?
August
- Aug 8 Nominated Document Spotlight-Murder and Mischief
- Aug 1 Community Transcription-Twenty Seven Months In
July
- Jul 25 Nominated Document Spotlight-Knox Considers the Constitution
- Jul 18 Document Spotlight-The Government Helps a Widow
- Jul 11 Document Spotlight-Zebulon Pike, Settlement of Accounts, and Stolen Vouchers
- Jul 2 Community Transcription-Twenty Six Months In
May
- May 30 Community Transcription-Twenty Five Months In
- May 15 A War Department of Twelve
- May 9 Document Spotlight-The War Department Versus the Free Market
- May 2 Document Spotlight-Bread and Beef and Candles
April
- Apr 30 Yellow Fever’s Challenges to the Government in Philadelphia
- Apr 25 Community Transcription-Twenty Four Months In
- Apr 17 Loyal Citizen or Lying Cheat?
- Apr 11 Document Spotlight-One Hundred Eighty Dollars’ Worth of Salary
- Apr 5 What were Charleville Muskets?
- Apr 4 Document Spotlight-Major General’s Commission
March
- Mar 28 Community Transcription-Twenty Three months In
- Mar 21 Volunteer Spotlight-A Beginning Transcriber
- Mar 19 The Embargo
- Mar 13 Scripto User Spotlight-DIY History
- Mar 7 Canadian Refugees
February
- Feb 28 Community Transcription-Closing in on Two Years
- Feb 25 Fort Duquesne
- Feb 7 “Much more promising than many of the Virginia gentlemen.”
January
- Jan 24 Community Transcription Update-Twenty One Months On
- Jan 23 Washington, D.C., the inconvenient city
- Jan 9 Humphreys versus Fox
2012
December
- Dec 18 Community Transcription Update-Twenty Months On
- Dec 18 Secret Agent Number 13
- Dec 4 The Uncertain Fate of Samuel Ewing
November
- Nov 20 Nautical Terminology: Learning a New Language at the War Department
- Nov 9 The Battleground State of Ohio
October
- Oct 25 Community Transcription-18 Months and 1,000 Transcribers
- Oct 25 Hazards of Travel
- Oct 9 Document Spotlight-More on the Stolen Certificates
- Oct 4 Document Spotlight-Stolen Certificate Paper and Counterfeits
- Oct 3 The War Department, the French Five Hundred and Humanitarian Assistance on the Frontier
September
- Sep 27 Community Transcription-Closing in on 1,000 Transcribers
- Sep 25 On the Job Market
- Sep 20 Document Spotlight-Horse and Rider Edition
- Sep 13 Document Spotlight-Questions of Forgery
- Sep 11 Document Spotlight-Captivated Prisoner Edition
- Sep 11 Who was Isaac Craig?
- Sep 6 Who are these transcribers, anyway?
- Sep 5 Document Spotlight-Expense Report Edition
- Sep 5 PWD featured in Chronicle Article
August
- Aug 30 Community Transcription-Sixteen Months and Counting
- Aug 29 Governor George Izard
- Aug 28 Document Spotlight-Treaties and Garrisons
- Aug 20 Document Spotlight-Powder Cask Edition
- Aug 14 Document Spotlight-Scout Payment Edition
- Aug 7 Document Spotlight-Requisitions and Salary Edition
- Aug 3 The Ups and Downs of Tobias Lear
- Aug 1 A Pair of Overalls
July
- Jul 12 Document Spotlight-More Woolen Overalls and a Medicine Chest
- Jul 10 Hamilton’s Illness, Redux
- Jul 3 Celebrating the 4th with a Bang
June
- Jun 26 Document Spotlight-Overdue Salary Edition
- Jun 25 Jonathan Jackson
- Jun 21 Document Spotlight-“Please, Sir, Could I Please Have Some Clothing?”
- Jun 19 Document Spotlight-Mr. Hamilton is Ill
- Jun 14 Community Transcription-Where Did the Time Go?
- Jun 6 What is a Nighthead?
- Jun 5 Document Spotlight-Whose Side Are They Really On?
May
- May 22 In a Humor for Reading
- May 7 Captain Hendrick Aupaumut
April
- Apr 25 War Department Accountant requests a Pay Raise
- Apr 18 Document Spotlight-Military Appointment Edition
- Apr 11 Fumigating Public Stores
- Apr 4 Who was William Blount?
March
- Mar 21 The Difficulties of Wagon Transportation
- Mar 20 Document Spotlight-Nine Thousand Pounds of Cannonballs
- Mar 14 Smallpox Inoculation 1792
- Mar 7 Who was Andrew Pickens?
- Mar 6 Document Spotlight-Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
- Mar 5 Community Transcription-Eleven Months On
February
- Feb 22 Chocolate for Invalids
- Feb 13 St. Clair Defeat
- Feb 8 Document Spotlight-Another Proclamation
- Feb 7 The War Department Fire and Compensation
- Feb 1 Captain Molly
January
2011
December
- Dec 21 Community Transcription-Nine Months On
- Dec 19 Document Spotlight-Jesse Bowles’ Rental
- Dec 13 Document Spotlight-West Point Inventory
- Dec 12 Two Captured Soldiers Seek “Redemption’
- Dec 1 General Washington’s New Uniform
November
- Nov 28 Document Spotlight-Business with the Alleghany Indians
- Nov 22 Steam-powered boats and the War Department
- Nov 22 Document Spotlight-“Murder of Some Friendly Indians”
- Nov 22 Community Transcription-Eight Months On
- Nov 15 Document Spotlight-Horses and Saddles and Wagons, Oh My!
- Nov 10 Before Clara Barton’s Vision
- Nov 7 Document Spotlight-Mr. Fox’s Appointment
- Nov 2 General Statement of Indian Policy
- Nov 1 Harpers Ferry and “The Habitual Laziness of the Poor in this Country”
October
- Oct 27 Community Transcription-Seven Months On
- Oct 24 Document Spotlight-Death of a Judge
- Oct 19 The Greaton Women and the War Department
- Oct 17 Document Spotlight-Military Supply List
- Oct 12 Document Spotlight-More Pension Inquiries
- Oct 4 The Jeffersonian Revolution, and its Implications for the War Department and Federalist Party
- Oct 3 Document Spotlight-Bad News for Captain Bliss
September
- Sep 29 Community Transcription-Six Months On
- Sep 29 Help Needed-Transcribe this document
- Sep 28 Uncle Henry Wants You
- Sep 26 Document Spotlight: No Sleeping in the Yard
- Sep 26 Ghost Author of Documents
- Sep 19 Document Spotlight-A Peace Proclamation
- Sep 12 The USS Crescent
- Sep 7 Document Spotlight-Orders for Captain Preston
August
July
June
- Jun 30 Three Months On-A Transcriber Spotlight
- Jun 20 A Gill Filled with Taffia
- Jun 15 Winter Quarters
May
- May 31 Violence between Frontiersmen and American Indians in the Southwest
- May 24 A Soldier First and Last
- May 17 Community Transcription: Two Months On
- May 17 Why Build Another Navy?
- May 3 Allowance of Spirits
April
March
- Mar 28 Malignant Disorder in Philadelphia
- Mar 25 Community Transcription: One Week On
- Mar 17 Volunteer to be a Transcription Associate
- Mar 9 Land Acquisition and the National Road
February
- Feb 28 Drunkenness, Desertion and Dueling
- Feb 21 Punishing Deserters
- Feb 17 Frontier Militia versus American Indians
- Feb 14 Lottery
January
- Jan 20 Creation of the War Department
- Jan 3 PWD featured in NY Times article about crowdsourcing transcription
2010
December
November
- Nov 30 What does commutation mean?
- Nov 15 How to Handle Spies, circa 1796
- Nov 1 Kind and Friendly Treatment of the Indians
October
- Oct 25 The Legion System
- Oct 21 Deranged and Unemployed
- Oct 6 What should be the official title of the President?
September
- Sep 27 Executive Hands Fettered: Governor Jackson and Secretary McHenry
- Sep 24 Indian Assimilation and the Plan for Civilization
- Sep 13 Piracy and Boundary Disputes
August
- Aug 24 Maine-Canada Boundary
- Aug 23 Welcome to the PWD blog
- Aug 9 Debtors Prison
July
June
- Jun 29 Compensation for Refugees
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January
- Jan 1 News Archive