By Zoya Brumberg The history of slavery in Detroit was largely absent from public representations of the city’s history when Tiya Miles began the “Mapping Slavery in Detroit” website. As the Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Professor of History and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Miles collaborated […]
ARCHIVE: Featured Projects
Archaeology in the Community
By Zoya Brumberg Dr. Alexandra Jones started the Washington, D.C.-based project Archaeology in the Community in 2006 to make the study of archaeology something that members of her community could engage with outside the bounds of traditional academia. While completing her PhD in Archaeology from the University of California at Berkeley, Jones worked with local […]
Climate Stories Project
By Zoya Brumberg http://www.climatestoriesproject.org/ “Climate Stories Project” (CSP) is an educational and creative forum for discussing climate change and its effects on global communities. Its purpose is to collect oral histories about the experiential effects of climate change to establish curricula and workshops that introduce a personal approach to educating children, teenagers, adults, and teachers […]
Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine
By Zoya Brumberg This year, the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and the Center for the History of Medicine, and the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine are presenting a series of four lectures about the history of psychiatry and medicine. The Colloquium offers the opportunity for practicing doctors, psychologists, historians, […]
This Month in Theatre History
By Zoya Brumberg There are moments in history seldom publicly remembered and performed—and there are moments of performance that are seldom remembered in history. Reviving and sharing these stories has the potential to inform the ways we understand theatre and performance today. The first general-circulation theatre magazine, American Theatre, founded in 1984 by the arts […]
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