R3 and the Digital Humanities: The White Glove Project

Last updated on: July 3, 2015 at 9:17 am by Andre E. Johnson

R3 and the Digital Humanities: The White Glove Project 2015-07-03T09:17:28-05:00 Andre E. Johnson

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Here at R3, we want to highlight some of the digital humanities and archival projects that focus of rhetoric race and religion. If you have a digital project focused on any aspect of rhetoric, race, or religion, please share them with us here at R3. Today’s Post: The White Glove Project directed by Dr. Melody Lehn

In an address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association in 1987, Nancy Reagan offered the following assessment about the unique role that first ladies have historically occupied in American political culture: “If the president has a bully pulpit, then the first lady has a white glove pulpit. It’s more refined, more restricted, more ceremonial, but it’s a pulpit all the same.”

Taking its inspiration from Nancy Reagan, the idea for the “White Glove Pulpit Project” originates from a concern that much of what we know about how American first ladies use their undefined, yet powerful role to shape and influence political culture comes through public discourse about them rather than attentiveness to their actual words and accomplishments. While discourses (popular and scholarly alike) assessing the performances of first ladies inform our understanding of this role throughout history, there is a wealth of untapped resources. Diaries, letters, autobiographies, newspaper columns, speeches, interviews, memoranda, visual images, and now texts circulated through social media demonstrate how presidential spouses tell a deeper and richer story that individually and collectively created a viable platform for advocacy that continues today.

Part digital archive, part digital bibliography, and part news-sharing platform, the White Glove Pulpit Project is using Twitter to not only assemble various secondary texts (press coverage, historical analysis, media, and more), but also and more importantly to recover and circulate primary sources for public consumption and, hopefully, scholarly examination across different disciplines.

Dr. Melody Lehn, Assistant Professor of Communication at University of South Carolina is the project’s director. She hopes the page expands to become a collaborative project where people send contributions about their favorite first ladies. You can follow the project on Twitter @wgpproject!

Uncategorized

Melody Lehm. Digital Humanities

White Glove Project

Previous Post

July 1, 2015

Keeping Faith in a Season of Change

Next Post

July 5, 2015 The Public Theologian: The Post Reconstruction Rhetoric of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner-Pt. 4

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Amy Steele Andre E. Johnson Book Reviews/Series Brian Foulks Call for Chapters Carol Howard Merritt Classes Conferences Contributors Crystal St.Marie Lewis Daniel White Hodge Earle Fisher Eulogy Fredrick Robinson Guest Contributions Henry McNeal Turner Institutes Interviews Joseph Boston Katherine Whitfield Kimberly Peeler-Ringer Lectures/Roundtables Natalie Bullock Brown R3 Book Series R3 Contributor Rashad Grove Readers Reflections Symposiums Teaching Traci Ellis Travis Harris Uncategorized Video

Select a Month June 2020 February 2020 December 2019 November 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 October 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz