The Black Bibliography Project is hiring its first team of graduate students at Yale and Rutgers! See below for more details, or attend an upcoming information session about the project and these positions on Thursday, March 9 @ 5-6 p.m. (Zoom link below.)

⏳Friday at noon! Publishing Your Digital Project is coming up later this week. Join editors Roopika Risam and @graphtie to learn about #ReviewsInDH's model for peer review, other venues for publishing, how to prep your DH project, and more. Register at uoft.me/8Q2.

"Searching African American Newspapers in Chronicling America Historic Newspapers" Don't miss this great interview / treasure trove of research tips from Library of Virginia & Arkansas State Archives blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandhe…

All around us, people are saving historic places. As part of our campaign for Where Women Made History, we interviewed five women who help protect historic spaces. Listen to these multifaceted preservationists describe their work in their own words: ow.ly/XuUq50Na77T

Fantastic documentary on Rosenwald schools featuring our own Mozell Booker and Dunbar school here in Fluvanna. Our appreciation to Carmen Smith who preserved this important historic site. Thanks also to ⁦Sonja Ingram⁩ and ⁦PreservationVA⁩ youtu.be/1x1RBBjtiXw

All around us, people are saving historic places. As part of our campaign for Where Women Made History, we interviewed five women who help protect historic spaces. Listen to these multifaceted preservationists describe their work in their own words: ow.ly/XuUq50Na77T

Monumental photography collection of Black Southern life comes to UNC wunc.org/arts-culture/2…

Wanted to take a moment to brag on a colleague, Brandon Hulette VUROTC, who is digitizing Civil War records from the TN Wars Comission. Much if it is Fort Negley Park, a UNESCO Site of Memory related, and about USCT. It will be available to all for free online through Vanderbilt Libraries.

What a day!🏅If you missed the livestream of Ann receiving the #NationalHumanitiesMedal, you can watch below. On behalf of Ann, thank you for all the kind words you’ve sent our way since yesterday. We truly couldn’t work for a kinder, more talented person. youtube.com/live/RAwaHJKXM…

Last month the HUBPA Team was featured in an article for PBS PBS News by journalist Kenichi Serino 📰🗞️! View the full article here : pbs.org/newshour/natio… #blackpressinthenews #HUBPA #archives #blackpress #howarduniversity #blackhistorymonth

Commonplace books, often compiled by women as a way to master studies of art and literature, can inform gender history, women's history and more. Explore the pages of this 19th-century example by Ann Jordan with curator Vanessa.

On Colbert last week I mentioned my 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Mueller, who after reading a poem I wrote, told me I could be a writer when I grew up. I never forgot those words. So what an utter delight when I looked up from the signing table in New Orleans and saw Ms. Mueller there!

These portraits are so full of beauty and power, some made me tear up. Such stories too. So pleased we finally made it to Small Special Collections Library (UVA) for #Holsinger #VisionsOfProgress brilliantly curated John Edwin Mason

Papers at Yale’s Beinecke Library shed new light on Bias and Margaret Stanley, leaders in New Haven’s Black community during the early 1800s: ow.ly/g71i50NNwbQ #archives

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On Wednesday, National Endowment for the Humanities & US Department of the Interior announced a new partnership to record the oral histories of thousands of Indigenous boarding school attendees, survivors, and descendants across the country. Learn more via The Associated Press: bit.ly/3HlMJ0e #NEHintheNews

When we lose historic communities we lose a sense of place, connection and identity. Our homegrown value system that’s rooted in community is gone. Preservation is more than architecture to me. It’s about a story still waiting to be told. Barbara Jordan’s story is being told here

Explore a 100-year-old scrapbook kept by a Lane College student during her 1923 senior year. UT Libraries has digitized the journal & it is available online. Lane College, in Jackson, Tenn., was among the earliest Black-founded & run colleges in the US. lib.utk.edu/news/2023/12/m…

If you watch one video today and decide to share it with others, let it be THIS three minute speech by Kamala Harris over the latest bombshell by Donald Trump's longest-serving chief of staff, former General John Kelly.   Trump is Hitler is trending because that's who he admires.