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  • on being acknowledged.

    on being acknowledged.

    I became a librarian to facilitate original scholarship that builds out complexity of the historical record.

    Noble_and_Independent_Course-AcknowledgementSome time ago, as a Dartmouth College Lathem Fellow at Rauner Special Collections Library, I got to build on some of my undergrad research assisting Dr. Woody Lee on his Rev. Edward Mitchell, ’28 project. Dr. Lee had an a suspicion that Rev. Mitchell was potentially the first admitted black student in the Ivy league and I, too, was curious to find out if was true.

    Imagine my excitement to find out that 5 years later, Dr. Lee’s project has birthed into a full work: Lee, F. A., & Pringle, J. S. (2018). A Noble and Independent Course: The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell. Dartmouth College Press. [WorldCat]
    For purchase from University Press of New England: https://www.upne.com/1512602845.html

    Many congrats, Woody!

    For more information on Dr. Lee’s research, watch his 35-minute presentation “Ivy League Pioneers: Black Students at Dartmouth, 1775–1950″ (2015) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4EGynO2uDc

  • illiterate: the story of Harriet Tubman’s hymnal

    illiterate: the story of Harriet Tubman’s hymnal

    A version of this article by Lauren Christensen appears in print on December 24, 2017, on Page 23 of the [New York Times] Sunday Book Review

    illiterate: the story of Harriet Tubman’s hymnal

    [Photo Credit: Michael R Barnes/Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture]

    In 2010, a church hymnal that once belonged to Harriet Tubman — the American abolitionist hero who, after escaping slavery in 1849, devoted her new freedom to leading hundreds more of her fellow enslaved out of captivity, first as a conductor on the underground railroad and then later as a Union spy — was donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture by the collector and historian Charles L. Blockson.

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