Graduate student intern provides online access to Paul W. Bean Civil War materials
History graduate student Edward Andrew Kobylarz digitized and transcribed a wide selection of documents from the Paul W. Bean Collection as a part of a summer internship in Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department. Color scans and searchable text allow researchers a new way to access letters, pamphlets and other documents that provide a glimpse of activities, political opinions, and personal reflections during and after the Civil War. Kobylarz was able to bring to the project prior experience in digital collections and his perspective based on research interests in North American history. The new Paul W. Bean Digital Collection is available through DigitalCommons@UMaine at digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/paul_bean_papers.