African History from the Bottom Up with LLM-Augmented Agents is a joint project between the Center for African Studies and the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Together, the team will create HistoryChat, an AI tool that enables scholars, students, and teachers of history to interact with and study historical corpora. The first subject of this project is The African Times, a unique, historically significant newspaper produced by members of the transatlantic African diaspora in the late 19th century. HistoryChat will be openly accessible so that it can be applied to any historical corpus, addressing the intellectual gap in the history of other underrepresented communities.
African History from the Bottom Up with LLM-Augmented Agents2024-2025
