Links and Resources Legacies links for February 27, 2023: Black history is everywhere—and in very specific places 27 Feb 202326 Feb 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Oakwood University’s Slave Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.…
Links and Resources Legacies links for February 20, 2023: Frederick Douglass, Reconstruction, the Black Campus Movement—all still relevant! 20 Feb 202320 Feb 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. A Frederick Douglass mural in Belfast, Northern…
Links and Resources Legacies links for February 13, 2023: Black history, reparations, and the great outdoors 13 Feb 202313 Feb 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Samford University’s Racial Reconciliation Memorial in Birmingham,…
Links and Resources Legacies links for January 30, 2023: Black history in Florida and other skirmishes in the culture wars 30 Jan 202327 Jan 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link here does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. Splash Mountain (and its racist legacy)…
Links and Resources Legacies links for January 23, 2023: trillions of dollars (and other ways to reckon the cost of slavery) 23 Jan 202326 Jan 2023 As always, we encourage you to share this post. A link here does not imply agreement or endorsement by the Council of Independent Colleges. On January 19, 2023, Maryland Gov.…
Links and Resources Legacies links for December 12, 2022: apologies, reparations, and overlooked histories 12 Dec 202212 Dec 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. A Black church in rural Eloy,…
Links and Resources… Legacies links for December 7, 2022: Recent Scholarship on the Afterlives of Slavery 7 Dec 20224 Dec 2022 Normally, we post the weekly links on Mondays. The schedule may be a little erratic for the next few weeks, thanks to the holidays and CIC's upcoming Presidents Institute. As…
Links and Resources Legacies links for October 24, 2022: echoes of slavery, at home and abroad 24 Oct 202223 Oct 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. “Moving Chains,” sculptor Charles Gaines’s installation…
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…
Links and Resources Legacies links for September 13, 2022: Black Flight, Flying Africans, reparations, and more 13 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. As part of Chicago’s Humanities 2020…