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Mary Biggs

Re-Designing Historic Space: Corrective Landscape Planning at Stagville State Historic Site

29 December 2020 – Mary Biggs

sense of place, interpretation, historic preservation, African American history, landscape

Editors Note: How do historical sites reckon with landscape within interpretive plans? Mary Biggs joins us to explore how one former plantation space in North Carolina uses the landscape on which formally enslaved people worked and lived to reconceptualize visitor experience at that site. Read More

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Black History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Placement at York University
05 March 2024 – Leena Hussein and Alanna Brown
digital history, race, Canada, Black history
Editor’s Note: This is piece is written from two perspectives to reflect on a collaborative public history placement at York University in Toronto, Canada. The authors, Alanna Brown and Leena Hussein, are profiled at the end of the piece. Introduction: Credible sources are essential to improving both the reliability and credibility of Wikipedia as an academic resource. Read More

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