FIRST LOOK at our upcoming Free Shakespeare in the Park production of HAMLET, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon! Get excited, performances start June 8th at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park! 💀 🎠🌳 ✨
📸 by Joan Marcus
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NEH announces $35.63 million in grants to support 258 #humanities projects nationwide.
This includes the first round of awards under the new “Spotlight on Humanities in #HigherEd” #NEHgrant program, part of the agency’s “American Tapestry” initiative. bit.ly/3mQ92E9
I am pleased to announce @Matrix_MSU received #NEHGrant for Willis E. Bell Photographic Archive
Preserving and making accessible 34,923 photographs by Willis E. Bell, an American photographer who lived in Accra, Ghana, from 1957 to 1999 @NEH_PresAccess#PresAccessFunded
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There's still a few hours left to apply: join us for an @NEHgov@NEH_Education Summer Institute for higher ed faculty in data-informed methods for the study of enslaved people, 2 weeks on-site at @Matrix_MSU, 2 weeks online. institute.enslaved.org/
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New year, new issue. "Revolutionary Contradictions: Slaveholding and Virginia's Founding Generation," Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:3 (December 2022). lnkd.in/gKxDPXj9.
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Spread the word! We will be hosting a @NEHgov Summer Faculty Institute "Data-Informed Methods in Slavery Studies"! June 2023. Hybrid modality starting with in-person at @michiganstateu and then remote. More details Dec 1! #NEHGrant#NEHLearnTogether
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Out now: Stephen Berry, "Review: Mortality in the South, 1850." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:2 (August 2022): 45-52. doi.org/10.25971/k88x-y488#data#history
ALT [Grave of Uncle Joe; died 1888, . . . Fairview Cemetery, Eufaula, Alabama.] [1937-1938.] Photograph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://lccn.loc.gov/99615419.
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ALT Composite map of Mississippi River and Fausse Riviere [False River] c. 1795 created by Louisiana Slave Conspiracies team, https://lsc.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/images/1795_repimg.jpg
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Out now: Michael J. Douma, "Dutch-speaking Runaway Slaves in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1730-1825." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:2 (August 2022): 38-44 doi.org/10.25971/e479-ms42#data#history
ALT Runaway ad for the fugitive Peter, New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, May 16, 1768
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ALT Proceedings against the Negroes of Pointe Coupee for the Crime of Revolution, 1795-05-02-01, Spanish Judicial Records, Louisiana Historical Center, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Out now: Fabricio Prado and Christen Macias, "ColĂ´nia do Sacramento - Livro 5o. de Batismos (1763-1777)" Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:2 (August 2022): 16-21. doi.org/10.25971/ahkb-0h15#data#history
Out now: @JSchindling, David Wheat, and Jane Landers "African Baptisms in Havana, Cuba, 1590-1600" Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:2 (August 2022): 9-15. doi.org/10.25971/XQ5H-H204#data#history
ALT Vingboons, Johannes. Gezicht op Havana [View of Havana], ca. 1665. Watercolor. Nationaal Archief, The Netherlands. Https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6757-NA_View_of_Havana.jpg.
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Out now: @rothmanistan “Franklin and Armfield Slave Sales in New Orleans, 1828-1836," Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:2 (August 2022): 1-8. DOI: doi.org/10.25971/YTXZ-JW71#data #history
ALT American Anti-Slavery Society. “Franklin & Armfield’s Slave Prison,” detail from “Slave Market of America” (1836). Broadside. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661294/
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New August content: Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation vol. 3, no. 2, documenting enslaved people in Cuba, Brazil, the mid-Atlantic, and the US South, esp. Louisiana. Read more at doi.org/10.25971/x68y-q318. #data#history@MellonFdn@NEHgov
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Out now: Using our data visualizer, explore the lives of 78K individuals recovered from @LibraryofVA collection "Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative"! The underlying research reveals fascinating, deeply human family relations and life events. enslaved.org/visualizedata?t…
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Out now: @VirginiaTraweek and @malcolmwardlaw “Freedman’s Savings and Trust Bank Passbook and Dividend Repayment Records," Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3:1 (June 2022). DOI: doi.org/10.25971/7jn5-5x58#data#history
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