Slavery, Servitude, and Tenant Labor at America’s House Museums
In this paper, summer 2024 Research Fellow Brian Whetstone explores how formerly enslaved men and women and domestic servants emerged as public history's first generation of frontline workers as large plantations and estates transitioned from private homes to public historic sites at the end of the nineteenth century. What has led to the erasure of these workers' stories, and how can more attention to institutional archives at house museums bring them out?
“What is a Civil Rights Site?”: Re-conceptualizing the Preservation of Black American Heritage
In this paper, Charlette M. Caldwell explores how the historic preservation field can expand the current lexicon of preservation heritage standards to support the challenging task of preserving Black heritage sites with limited materiality.
Tags: American History; Black American Culture and History; preservation/conversation; pedagogy; practice; education; methodology; policy
Black Personhood & Black Preservation
The Work of CPCRS Research Fellows
In April 2023, CPCRS Spring Fellows Kenyatta McLean and Chris Rogers presented their research on the legacy and preservation of the Freedman's Colony in Manteo, NC, and Black intergenerational expression in West Philadelphia.
Recover and Remix: Digital Humanities, Heritage Preservation, and Black Geographies
In this essay, Research Fellow Emily Holloway explores the tools, methods, theories, and possibilities of digital humanities (DH) through the lens of CPCRS’ mission.
