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 […]
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 […]