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In my next case study, I turn to HathiTrust and its Bookworm tool to model how its timeline tool can be used to study shellshock across an 18-million volume collection.

I chose HathiTrust as they offer a number of open-access texts, which can be downloaded using their collection tool, into comma separated value tables. As a repository, HathiTrust includes content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. 

HathiTrust's Bookworm tool allows researchers to search the entire collection for terms across time. Unlike Project Arclight, this project is made up of eighteen million volumes and counting, so I had a much larger sample set with which to experiment.