For several semesters, my students have been researching and completing entries on the African American men and women who worked as paid employees at Davidson College during the Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and early post-desegregation eras. Each semester, new challenges emerge for students. Inconsistent spelling of names and birth years in campus… Read More »Confronting Unmarked Memorials of Jim Crow Era Janitors
The remains of the Toombs Oak in front of the University of Georgia’s historic chapel. By Steve Armour, University Archivist, University of Georgia Contributing to the Locating Slavery’s Legacies database (LSLdb) was a rewarding experience in the fall of 2023. As the University Archivist at a large, old, southern institution… Read More »The Toombs Oak: Even in Decay, It Preserved Memories of the Lost Cause
The image above is of Robb Hall at Rhodes College. Learn more about the history of this building and its namesake, Alfred A. Robb, in our LSL database here. By: Prof. Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College In Fall 2023, Tim Huebner, Professor of History at Rhodes College, joined with Bill… Read More »Confronting a College’s Past in a 175th Anniversary College History Course
The legacies of slavery are everywhere at the University of Alabama … if you look for them, as these students discovered. By Dr. Rachel Stephens The ideas expressed in this post are solely the views of the author based on her experience and do not necessarily represent those of the… Read More »Locating Slavery’s Legacies at The University of Alabama
Contributing to the Database Changed a Student’s Perspective From his research for the LSL database, the author, a student at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, discovered that a women’s club, known for one year as the K.K.K, and afterward as the K.K.K.K, showed up proudly in the College yearbook from… Read More »Eye-Opening
Editor’s note: Dr. Woody Register at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, incorporated the database into his freshman Finding Your Place (FYP) course, which is designed to help new incoming students learn more about the Sewanee campus and get acclimated before starting their freshman year. Here are his… Read More »‘Finding Your Place’ with the LSLdb
A not-so-short history of the idea behind the Locating Slavery’s Legacies database. How did the Locating Slavery’s Legacies database get started? Prepare yourself for a bit of a long story. The point of origin for the database is easily located. It was in a crowded conference room on the campus… Read More »What if …?
By Jonathan S. Jones, Civil War historian, formerly at VMI, now at James Madison University I got involved in the LSLdb because my students and I wanted to know more about the hidden and oft-overlooked impressions of the Lost Cause at VMI. I also wanted to find a medium that… Read More »Teaching and Learning with Locating Slavery’s Legacies at VMI
By Dan Fountain, Professor of History, Meredith College Meredith College, a liberal arts college for women in Raleigh, North Carolina, implemented an anti-racism initiative in the spring of 2020 that called for us to “work to understand the realities of our history and any linkage to systemic racism.” I have… Read More »Why I contribute to the LSLdb
By Nashieli Marcano, PhD, Archivist of Digital Collections, Furman University Over the past few years, Furman has joined the national conversation around the subject of legacies of slavery at our campus institutions. Through the commission of the Task Force on Slavery and Justice in 2018, Furman was able to take… Read More »Energizing Communication Studies Students to Locate Legacies of Slavery at Furman University
