Links and Resources Legacies links for May 22, 2023: Desegregation, Confederate nostalgia, and other ways of remembering and forgetting the past 22 May 202322 May 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Clinton, Tennessee, 1956: Two years after the…
Links and Resources Legacies links for May 15, 2023: Petrochemicals, prisons, and psychology 15 May 202315 May 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. The industrial stretch of the Mississippi River…
Links and Resources Legacies links for May 8, 2023: horseracing, Vermont, and Tampa Bay all have obscured Black histories 8 May 20238 May 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Edward Troye, Portrait of the Racehorse 'Tobacconist'…
Links and Resources 6 Stops on the Underground Railroad on (or near) CIC Member Campuses 4 May 20233 May 2023 The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and hiding spaces used by thousands of African Americans in the nineteenth century to escape from slavery to the Northern…
Links and Resources Legacies links for May 1, 2023: Black artists and news from CIC members 1 May 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Hank Willis Thomas, Then Is Now (2017).…
Links and Resources Legacies links for April 24, 2023: banjos, secrets, and credit scores 24 Apr 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson (1893).…
Links and Resources Legacies links for April 17, 2023: Obscured histories of slavery from Maine to West Virginia 17 Apr 202317 Apr 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. In 2017, Sewanee: The University of the…
Links and Resources Legacies links for April 10, 2023: Whitewashing, “woke culture,” and the Klan 10 Apr 202310 Apr 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Ku Klux Klan parade, Washington, D.C., Sept.…
Links and Resources Legacies links for April 3, 2023: DNA, ChatGPT, and Historic Preservation 3 Apr 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School in Eatonville,…
Links and Resources Five Good Books about Colleges and Slavery: A Starting Point 30 Mar 2023 Colleges and universities across the United States (indeed, around the world) are thinking deeply about their own historical entanglements with slavery. Enslaved labor and the wealth derived from slavery played…
