on being acknowledged.

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

illiterate: the story of Harriet Tubman’s hymnal

“This idea of having a sacred book and not being able to read it,” he said in a phone interview, “that’s a window into her piety. And it is in line with a longer tradition one finds in the black religious experience in North America...”