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Slavery – It Happened Here, Too, Part II, October 2023
Program Agenda and Speaker Information: It Happened Here, Too: Stories from New Jersey Part II
Program Handout: African-American Research at the New Jersey State Archives
Presentation Slides: African Link Initiative
Presentation Slides: Back to Africa Through Family Stories
Presentation Slides: Bondage, Freedom and the Building of Early White and Black Communities
Presentation Slides: Lawnside: A Free Haven
Presentation Slides: Morven & Slavery
Presentation Slides: The Notion of Timbuktu/Timbuctoo in the African Diaspora
Slavery – It Happened Here, Too, Part I, June 2023
Program Agenda: Slavery – It Happened Here, Too: Stories from New Jersey Part I
Speaker Information: Slavery – It Happened Here, Too: Stories from New Jersey Part I
Presentation Slides: Beneath the Floorboards: Whispers of the Enslaved at Marlpit Hall
Presentation Slides: Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ
Presentation Slides: Princeton & Slavery Project
Presentation Slides: Scarlet and Black: Rutgers University’s Ties to Slavery
Presentation Slides: Slavery – It Happened Here, Too
Presentation Slides: Slavery in New Jersey – It Was Here Too
Presentation Slides: Stocktons and the Colonization Movement
New Jersey’s Historic Sites & Crossroads, June 2022
Speaker Information: New Jersey’s Historic Sites & Crossroads
Presentation Slides: New Jersey’s Historic Sites & Crossroads
Presentation Slides: Standing on Holy Ground – The Unmarked Graves of our Ancestors
Presentation Slides: The Hidden History of Mount Peace Cemetery
Presentation Slides: Kenney Memorial Hospital
Presentation Slides: DAR’s Efforts to Preserve the Memory of Jack Cudjo Banquante
Presentation Slides: Finding Fortune – A Journey Through Historic Preservation
Presentation Slides: The Lost Souls Public Memorial Project
Presentation Slides: Confronting the Past to Repair the Enduring Harm in the Present
Presentation Slides: Clinton Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Commemorating the Tulsa Massacre, June 2021
Memorializing African American History: Cemeteries, Monuments & Markers, April 2021
Health as a Civil Right: A Three-Part Virtual Panel Series, March 2021 (click on the images to review recordings of each session)
Teaching African American History: A Workshop for K-12 Educators (And Others), October 2019
Program Agenda: Teaching African American History: A Workshop for K-12 Educators (And Others)
Speaker Information: Teaching African American History: A Workshop for K-12 Educators (And Others)
Presentation Slides: Uncovering and Incorporating Local History by Beverly Mills and Elaine Buck
Building Capacity to Present, Interpret, and Discuss Difficult Issues in African American History, presented at the 2019 Meeting of the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), August 2019
What Do You See? Using the Arts to Enrich Understanding of the African American Experience, June 2019
Introduction Slides: Linda Caldwell Epps, Ph.D., 1804 Consultants, Inc.
Engage Your Audiences with Difficult Topics in African American History: A Workshop for Museums, Historic Sites, Libraries, and Cultural Institutions, January 2019
Program Agenda: Engage Your Audiences With Difficult Topics in African American History
Introduction Slides: Linda Caldwell Epps, Ph.D., 1804 Consultants, Inc.
Breakout Session: Addressing Community Concerns – Morven Museum & Garden
Breakout Session: Addressing Community Concerns – Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
Breakout Session: Putting the Past Into Context, Shirley A. Satterfield, Princeton, NJ
Breakout Session: Pennsbury Manor, Morrisville, PA
Thought Questions and Further Reading, Claudia Ocello, Museum Partners Consulting, LLC
Telling African American History as New Jersey History, June 2018
Presentation Slides: Telling African American History as New Jersey History, June 2018
Case Study: Friday Memory – Rethinking the Honors Bestowed
Case Study: Friday Memory – A Simple Lawn Ornament
Case Study: Friday Memory – Nantucket African Meeting House
Case Study: Van Wickle Street Name
Presenting & Discussing Difficult Topics in African American History, November 2017
Program Agenda: Presenting & Discussing Difficult Topics in African American History, November 2017
Presenting & Discussing Difficult Topics in African American History at Museums and Historic Sites
Interpreting Difficult History
Resources for Teaching Difficult Subjects in the Classroom and Museum
Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Facilitators
Exploring African American History in New Jersey, May 2017
Program Agenda: Exploring African American History in New Jersey, May 2017
African American Resources at the New Jersey State Archive
Black Cemeteries are Crucially Important
Burrow Into History: African American Archeology in New Jersey and Beyond
Timbuctoo: A case study in antebellum African American community development in New Jersey
Finding Free African American Ancestors from the Antebellum Period
Resources on African American History and Land Ownership
Navigating the New Jersey State Library Website
Exploring African American History at the New Jersey State Library
African American Genealogy Presentation
Online Record Applications and Databases: Genealogy or Family Tree Apps
Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Facilitators
Interpreting African American History at Historic Sites and Museums, January 2017
Program Agenda: Interpreting African American History at Historic Sites and Museums, January 2017
Program Notes: Interpreting African American History at Historic Sites and Museums, January 2017
Panelists: Interpreting African American History at Historic Sites and Museums, January 2017