The McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Multicultural Student Center are holding a Black Digital History lunch and learn on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 12 p.m. in the Multicultural Student Center on the 3rd floor of Memorial Union. Stop by for lunch. Leave with new tools in your knowledge arsenal.
Karen Sieber from the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will discuss digital humanities tools and resources for remembering, teaching, examining, understanding, and celebrating the Black experience in America.
From interactive maps and timelines to digital archives and databases, pop in to learn more about ways in which the digital humanities can help us better understand topics like slavery, Reconstruction, the long Civil Rights movement, Urban Renewal, and even hip-hop history.