Historians and archivists will lead a Finding Your Roots on Saturday, May 13, from 12:00-1:00 pm at the Bullock Museum. The workshop aims to help researchers to extrapolate from historical documents and archival sources the often fragmentary personal stories of enslaved men, women, and children. Maria Esther Hammack, a PhD student in the Department of […]
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#DataRescue Austin
DataRescue Austin is a nonpartisan alliance of local programmers, scientists, and writers dedicated to maintaining pubic access to federal data. The group is part of a national campaign to suppress information related to climate change and environmental degradation that is at risk of suppression and deletion for political reasons. On April 26, the group hosted […]
Women’s March on Washington Oral History Project
On January 21, 2017, students and staff from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPHOP) at the University of Florida travelled to the Women’s March on Washington as part of an experiential learning project. Their goal was to interview people with diverse viewpoints and backgrounds at the inauguration and the Women’s March and to learn […]
Border Public History
By Edward Shore Border Public History is an initiative of the History Department at the University of Texas-El Paso to preserve the public history of the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez metropolitan area. Directed by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva of the UTEP History Department, Border Public History fosters collaboration among historians and the general public to “recuperate […]
Unfinished Sentences
By Edward Shore Unfinished Sentences is an initiative of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) to encourage public participation in support of human rights in El Salvador. The campaign aims to document and share the stories of survivors of crimes against humanity committed in El Salvador’s civil war (1980-1992) while supporting Salvadoran […]