Below are links to articles, blog posts and media features about DIY History and our crowdsourcing projects.
- First Monday Library Chat: University of Iowa's DIY History, by Michelle DiMeo, The Recipes Project, Mar. 2, 2014
- Exploring Pioneer Lives: UI Libraries and Rhetoric Students Partner on New Digital Collection and Crowdsourcing Project, by Jen Wolfe, Iowa Now, Nov. 19, 2013
- Center for Research Libraries 2013 Primary Source Award for Access: DIY History, Focus on Global Resources, Spring 2013
- Peek into the Past: Web Project Allows Readers to Uncover Culinary History by Annie L. Scholl, Radish Magazine, Feb. 20, 2013
- The Care and Feeding of a Crowd by Shawn Averkamp and Matthew Butler, Code4Lib Conference, Chicago, Feb. 14, 2013
- Peek into Early American Kitchens with Iowa’s Recipe-rescue Project by Jessica Ferri, Shine from Yahoo!, Dec. 12, 2012
- DIY History Crowdsources the Transcription of 17th Century Cookbooks by Carren Jao, Wired.co.uk, Dec. 3, 2012
- Crowd-Sourcing Private Life, Plus Free Recipe for Biskit Pudin (With Suckit!) by Martha Bayless, The Past Is a Foreign Country, Nov. 30, 2012
- Transcribe Culinary History with the Click of a Mouse by Andy DeLoach, CNN Eatocracy, Nov. 29, 2012
- DIY History? by Yvonne Seale, HASTAC Scholars, Oct. 31, 2012
- Archive of Handwritten Recipes (1600–1960) Will Teach You How to Stew a Calf’s Head and More by Kate Rix, Open Culture, Oct. 31, 2012
- Want to Make Historic Recipes? by cashman, MetaFilter, Oct. 27, 2012
- Cooking Up a Crowdsourced Digitization Project that Scales by Meredith Schwartz, Library Journal, Oct. 22, 2012
- DIY History: UI Libraries Launches New Crowdsourcing Site With Manuscript Cookbooks and More by Jen Wolfe, Iowa Now, Oct. 16, 2012
- University of Iowa Libraries’ DIY History Project by Rebecca Hopman, Ex tabulis, Oct. 13, 2012
- On the Front Lines of History by Stephen Pradarelli, Iowa Now, May 7, 2012
- Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Preserving the Past and Future by kerplunk5688, DIGital HISTory, Jan. 30, 2012
- Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription by Nicole Saylor and Jen Wolfe, Research Library Issues, no. 277, Dec. 2011
- Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Insights Interview with Nicole Saylor by Trevor Owens, Library of Congress: The Signal: Digital Preservation, Dec. 6, 2011
- Hands-on Experience with Civil War History by Vanessa Miller, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Nov. 26, 2011
- Civil War Project Shows Pros and Cons of Crowdsourcing by Jie Jenny Zou, The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, June 14, 2011
- How to Participate in History While Sitting on My Ass by Transcribing Civil War Diaries Online by dick_long_wigwam, Reddit, June 8, 2011