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 […]
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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, […]
The Programming Historian
By Edward Shore The Programming Historian publishes beginner-friendly tutorials that help humanists to learn a range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. Contributors have uploaded web tutorials that will be useful to teachers and researchers in any field. For instance, “Intro to Google Maps and Google Earth” teaches how to […]