Working Historians
Working Historians
Robert Denning and James Fennessy
Karen Sieber - Humanities Specialist, McGillicuddy Humanities Center, University of Maine
50 minutes Posted Oct 16, 2020 at 12:00 am.
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Karen Sieber is a Humanities Specialist for the Clement and Laura McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine. In this episode we discuss her academic and professional background, the major public history research projects with which she has been affiliated, her work at the Humanities Center, and our history-related recommendations
Recommendations:
Visualizing the Red Summer http://visualizingtheredsummer.com/
Goin’ North: https://goinnorth.org/
Chicago Defender:https://www.chicagodefenderarchives.org/
African-American Civil War Soldiers Project: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/usct/african-american-civil-war-soldiers
Monroe Work Today: https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: https://snccdigital.org/
Charleston Syllabus: https://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/
Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History (Princeton University Press, 2020), https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691198668/in-the-matter-of-nat-turner
Rob’s interview with Christopher Tomlins for the New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/christopher-tomlins-in-the-matter-of-nat-turner-a-speculative-history-princeton-up-2020/