Slavery’s Slow Death in NJ
In honor of Black History Month, the National Park Service will welcome Dr. James Gigantino, an Assistant Professor of History and an allied faculty member in African and African American Studies at...
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Controversy in Public History … Can We Move Beyond Relativism?
Public historians took a battering 20 years ago through highly public struggles over two Smithsonian exhibits, The West as America at the National Museum of American Art (1991) and the Enola Gay at the...
View ArticleClosing Weekend of Freedom Around the Corner at Smithsonian
Freedom Just Around the Corner: Black America From Civil War to Civil Rights at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum will close February 15, 2016, after a year open to the public. Freedom is the...
View ArticleStudents Opposing Slavery, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Receive Presidential...
Students Opposing Slavery (SOS), a youth education program of the Washington D.C. historic site, President Lincoln’s Cottage, was awarded the Presidential Award of Extraordinary Efforts to Combat...
View ArticleNew Report Reveals Rutgers University’s Ties to Slavery, Native American...
Rutgers University released the findings of eight months of research that reveal an untold history of some of the institution’s founders as slave owners and the displacement of the Native Americans who...
View ArticleUniversity of Maryland Exhibit Shows Connections Between African Spiritual...
A new exhibition at the University of Maryland’s Hornbake Library displays archaeologists’ first-ever finding of an intact set of objects that they hypothesize are religious symbols — traditional ones...
View ArticlePrinceton and Slavery Project to Share Findings Through Arts, Academic...
Scholars at Princeton University plan to reveal findings of the Princeton and Slavery Project this fall through an academic symposium, digital exhibits, an art installation, and public programming. As...
View ArticleNew Book Explores Life of Ona Judge, Enslaved Woman Who Escaped George...
A professor of black studies and history at University of Delaware has written the first full-length nonfiction account of the life of Ona Judge, a woman who lived as George and Martha Washington’s...
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Rutgers University-Camden Hosts “Diverse Unfreedoms and Their Ghosts”
On March 31, 2017, the Graduate School, Africana Studies, Childhood Studies, English, History, Liberal Studies, and Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice will so-sponsor a one-day conference...
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University of Maryland and Archaeology in Annapolis Collaborate in Research...
The main house at Wye House plantation. According to Frederick Douglass, “It was called by the slaves the Great House Farm.” Courtesy Archaeology in Annapolis. By Mark P. Leone In the spring of 2005,...
View ArticleDelaware Historical Society Partnering with Teachers to Develop Lesson Plans...
The Delaware Historical Society is looking for teachers to help develop new lessons plans on slavery in the state. The lesson plans are a part of a new program “Liberty in Our Grasp,” which uses items...
View ArticleMD Women’s Museum Changes Foundation Name over Namesake’s Pro-slavery Beliefs
The Maryland Museum of Women’s History has announced that it will be changing the name of its foundation after discovering its former namesake’s pro-slavery beliefs. The foundation was originally named...
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