The past decade has seen big shifts in the interpretation of slavery and enslaved people. Descendant engagement has become a standard of practice at places like Montpelier, the Whitney Plantation, and the University of Virginia. Other institutions, like Duke University and Clemson University, have established archival collections centered on documenting enslaved people. Read More
Kin/Folk/Lore (KFL) is a community-led history project that uses grassroots storytelling to incite meaningful dialogues across cultures, generations, and localities in Philadelphia. Participant-audiences forge unlikely connections while considering changing landscapes, core values, and hopes that define their lives—past and present. KFL’s collection exists as a free, publicly accessible digital oral history database, exhibit, and album series. Read More
The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Department of Black Studies between 2021 and 2023. The UNO Black Studies department, established in 1971, was created through student activism, community engagement, and the tireless work of faculty and staff. Read More
NCPH’s Digital Media Group (DMG) is excited to announce the launch of the Digital Projects Directory. The Directory is a free guide to history-focused digital projects for students, faculty, public history professionals, and anyone interested in learning about history through digital media.Read More
When classes, conferences, and other large in-person gatherings moved to virtual platforms last spring in response to COVID-19, religious services were no exception. Under these circumstances, how have different religious communities adapted to practicing their religion remotely? To explore these and related questions, the Pandemic Religion project collects and preserves the experiences and responses of different religious communities in the U.S. Read More
Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series of reflective posts written by winners of awards intended to be given out at the NCPH 2020 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Jan Levinson-Hebbard of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia received an honorable mention for the Outstanding Public History Project Award.Read More
When I arrived at the University of West Georgia (UWG) as a graduate research assistant in Spring 2019, I learned that I would be working on a project called Along the Ridge, which connects descendants of enslaved people with the history of their ancestors. Read More
What’s the right thing to wear to the Manuscript Reading Room in the Library of Congress? That question might seem trivial to those who have done archival research before, but it was a fairly big one for us as two undergraduates setting off on our first journey as research assistants.Read More
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a three-part series on the Chicory Revitalization Project.
In my first post in this series, I argued that Chicory, a community poetry magazine from Baltimore in the 1960s, could be a valuable resource for public historians seeking the perspectives of regular people, particularly working-class African American young people, about the tumultuous era they lived through. Read More
Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a three-part series on Baltimore’s Chicory Revitalization Project.
Following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, black visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, actors, and poets conceptualized themselves as part of the Black Arts Movement, a black nationalist political and aesthetic project. Read More
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