This section explains what your overall goal will be in the project and the overall process of creating entries for the SHD.

This section will give you the basics of your assignments and provide links to resources for researching and writing your episodes for the Database.

This section explains what sorts of information will be required to accompany each episode you write for the Database. Here you will find detailed discussions of every part of your episode entries, the list of keywords you will use to sort your episodes, and examples of what your entries should look like.

This section describes how the SHD search engine works, how you can navagate your search results, and offers tips for more effective searching in the Database.

This section explains out to navigate and use the SHD maps, which trace the episodes in the Database across time and space throughout the nineteenth-century South.