CB-Essay in the Wild
Digital Humanites Projects
CB-Essay powers a variety of digital humanities projects:
Fire Lines: The First CB-Essay Project
The first CB-Essay, this essay uses archival items from the University of Idaho’s Special Collections and Archives to interrogate the massive wildfire that occurred in 1910, known as the Big Burn.
View: cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/fire-lines
Tender Spaces: Multimodal, Multilingual 5-Part Essay
This extensively customized multimodal and multilinqual essay explores artist Gaëtane Buttigieg’s life, art, and forced institutionalization in the 1970s through personal narratives and video interviews. This project demonstrates CB-Essay’s flexibility for highly designed, custom presentations.
View: cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/tender-spaces
Demonstration Sites
We set these sites up as demonstrations of the various themes and effects of the platform.
Frankenstein: Extracted Book from Project Gutenberg
A digital edition of Mary Shelley’s classic novel demonstrating the monograph theme. Features chapter-by-chapter navigation, integrated scholarly apparatus, and historical context from Project Gutenberg.
You can watch me build this site in the video below!
View: dcnb.github.io/frankenstein
The Wreck of the Deutschland: Single-page, scrollytold poem
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem presented in the essay theme with scrolling transitions and visual breaks. Shows how CB-Essay handles poetry and single-page essays with dramatic effect.
View: dcnb.github.io/wreck-of-the-deutschland
Next Steps
Ready to get started? The remaining essays walk you through everything:
- Get Started - Set up your first essay in 10 minutes
- Essay Features - Learn and copy all available features
- Collection Integration - Blend essays with collection items
Or jump straight to the documentation for reference guides.