The 2024-2025 Culture Corner theme is Dive Deeper: The 1619 Project – Tracing the Legacy of Slavery. This guide highlights books and e-book titles which support The 1619 Project, the most recent library book read in partnership with the School of Information Sciences. The topic categories below include links to print books, e-books, and media (streaming video, DVD, cd, etc.)
The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa.
The black experience in America – starting from its origins in western Africa up to the present day – is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure.
Slavery and public history : the tough stuff of American memory
National Anti-Slavery Standard was established in 1840 by the husband and wife team of Lydia and David Child, who both were affirmed abolitionists as well as recognized successful writers (Lydia Child was the author of the poem “over the river and through the woods”).
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century.
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The 1619 Project : a new origin story
Before the Mayflower : a history of black America
Slavery and public history : the tough stuff of American memory
Remembering the Revolution
National Anti-Slavery Standard
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
