Voices of the Manhattan Project: Exploring the Cultural Memory of AHF Oral Histories about the Manhattan Project.

Abstract

Our project is an attempt to use computational tools to explore the memories contained in the Voices of the Manhattan Project, an archive containing more than 600 oral histories of people living during the Manhattan Project. We applied Topic modelling and Name-Entity Extraction Recognition (NER) to extract the salient topics and people that are remembered in this corpus. Furthermore, we connect our results to previous works in the field of memory studies to put them in the context of possible psychological and social constraints that affect the act of remembering itself. Alongside our results, we also engage in a discussion regarding potential future investigations that could stem from this project as a foundation.

Learn more by reading our report!

Content

• /data folder contains the dataset scraped from Voices of the Manhattan Project and other processed datasets.
• /src folder contains the source codes for data scraping, data formatting and data analysis.
• /results folder contains the results of our analysis.
• The report.

Credits

Authors: Davide Romano - Cindy Tang - Junzhe Tang

Course: DH-412 History and the digital, EPFL

Dates: 03.2023 - 06.2023