Uncategorized Teaching Slavery in Texas: Report from a Syllabus Workshop at Austin College 31 Aug 20231 Sep 2023 Map Showing the Distribution of the Population of Enslaved People in Texas, 1860. Source: Lost Texas Roads Guest contributor: Claire Wolnisty* This summer, scholars from six Texas institutions of higher…
Uncategorized Legacies links for August 28, 2023: MLK’s Dream at 60 (and counting) 28 Aug 202328 Aug 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post with friends, students, colleagues, etc. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Today is…
Uncategorized Teaching about Race and Medicine: A Teaching Circle at Centenary College 24 Aug 202324 Aug 2023 Source: Faith Eselé, courtesy of Unsplash. Guest contributor: Chris Ciocchetti* Teaching about race and medicine can be lonely. When I created my course in bioethics at Centenary College over ten…
Uncategorized Legacies links for August 21, 2023: Black property rights, an unmarked grave, and Confederate monuments 21 Aug 202321 Aug 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post with friends, students, colleagues, etc. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. In 1957,…
Links and Resources… Legacies links for September 19, 2022: contested citizenship, the Constitution, and imperial histories 19 Sep 202218 Sep 2022 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link here does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Aaron Douglas, Harriet Tubman (1931). This…
Reflections… Legacies of Slavery at the African Burial Ground 19 Aug 202219 Aug 2022 The Wall of Remembrance at the African Burial Ground Memorial in lower Manhattan. source: All photos by Philip M. Katz. Earlier this month, we had a chance to visit the…
