research post 2026-05-01
Dissent
Listen
Center For Black Diaspora At Depaul University, “The Sounds of Stillness: Dwelling in the Visual Archive of Diaspora,” WBEZ, April 14, 2013, https://www.wbez.org/2013/04/14/the-sounds-of-stillness-dwelling-in-the-visual-archive-of-diaspora.
Reads
Emily A. Owens, Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023).
“The Freedmen’s Bureau,” National Archives, August 15, 2016, https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau.
“No Pensions for Ex-Slaves,” National Archives, August 15, 2016, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/summer/slave-pension.html.
Alexandra Shahin, “They Struggled and Fought, with Courage Fraught,” 64 Parishes, March 1, 2026, https://64parishes.org/they-struggled-and-fought-with-courage-fraught.
D. Ryan Gray, “Memories of Black Indian Materialities in Colonial New Orleans,” Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 8, nos. 1–2 (2019): 78–109, https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2019.1647662.
Kristina Kay Robinson, “Down River Road,” Burnaway, February 18, 2020, https://burnaway.org/magazine/letter-from-new-orleans-down-river-road/.
“One of the Most Resilient Trees on Earth Is Dying in Droves,” Premium, August 15, 2023, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/forest-bald-cypress-climate-change-sea-level-rise.
“Ecotourism Could Help the ‘Amazon of North America’ Recover. Here’s How.,” Travel, April 16, 2021, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-amazon-of-north-america-is-disintegrating-visit-mindfully.
“Fish Flee for Their Lives in Rare, Chilling Video of Bottom Trawling,” Environment, May 9, 2025, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/bottom-trawling-effects-seabed-ocean.
David Joshua Jennings, “Documenting Louisiana’s Surviving Old-Growth Bald Cypress Trees,” Louisianalife.Com, May 1, 2025, https://www.louisianalife.com/documenting-louisianas-surviving-old-growth-bald-cypress-trees/.
Fatima Shaik, “Economy Hall, the ‘Carnegie Hall of Jazz,’” accessed April 27, 2026, https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/what-do-you-know-about-economy-hall-jazz-fest-tents-namesake-was-once-.
Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati, “Woman Dies After a Gang Rape That Galvanized India,” World, The New York Times, December 28, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/world/asia/condition-worsens-for-victim-of-gang-rape-in-india.html.
Chris Turner-Neal, “Widow’s Mite,” 64 Parishes, May 31, 2022, https://64parishes.org/widows-mite.
Sean Michael Chick, “On the Eve of War: New Orleans, Louisiana,” Emerging Civil War, April 12, 2021, https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/04/12/on-the-eve-of-war-new-orleans/.4ee
“Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina From the Federal Union,” Digital History, accessed April 28, 2026, https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/south_secede/south_secede_southcarolina.cfm.
Ann Patton Malone, Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Univ of North Carolina Press, 1996).
“‘With Malice Toward None...’: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (U.S. National Park Service),” accessed April 28, 2026, https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/-with-malice-toward-none-lincoln-s-second-inaugural.htm.
Gabrielle Dean, “Scribbling Women: Zora Neale Hurston, Lost and Found,” Sheridan Libraries, September 10, 2020, https://www.library.jhu.edu/news/2020/09/scribbling-women-zora-neale-hurston-lost-and-found/.
Valerie Boyd, “Zora Neale Hurston: The Howard University Years,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 39 (2003): 104–8, https://doi.org/10.2307/3134393.
Mary Niall Mitchell, Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery NYU Press, 2008).
Documents
“Transcript of the Emancipation Proclamation,” National Archives, October 6, 2015, https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html
“Proceedings in a Case between an Alabama Freedwoman and Her Employer’s Son, March 24, 1866,” accessed April 27, 2026, https://www.freedmen.umd.edu/Sanford%20case.html
“Proceedings in a Case between a Tennessee Freedwoman and Her Employer, May 24, 1866,” accessed April 27, 2026, https://www.freedmen.umd.edu/Boyd.html.
Watch
Projects
“Cultural Family Photo Exhibit,” Economy Hall, accessed April 27, 2026, https://www.economyhall.com/descendants.
Economy members served in the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War, died in the New Orleans Massacre and “Battle of Liberty Place,” worked in the Reconstruction government and post-Reconstruction politics and much more. Their hall hosted public debates, theater, concerts, recitals, and balls.
Following are the names of the people who created the Economy Hall’s community: the 1836 founders and men who were members of the society in 1874 and 1876 when the Economy re-incorporated to include Les Amis de l’Équité—the Friends of Equity. Also listed are classical and jazz musicians; activists and politicians; and mutual aid, philanthrophic and labor organizations that came to Economy Hall.
The Cultural Family of Economy Hall is this community—linked over 200 years by history, culture and a commitment to equal rights and social parity. All cultural and biological descendants are welcome to join with the general public to celebrate the Economy family in June 2023 at Xavier University of Louisiana. .
(In)Visible Architects of Freedom Digital Archive https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/education/invisible-architects-digital-archive.htm
Primary sources, maps, timelines, and other educational resources for use in your classroom!
Explore this database of sources about the development of the Black American community of Lënapehòkink (known today as Philadelphia) dating from the 1600s through the 1800s.
Primary sources include petitions, newspaper articles, letters, objects, friendship albums, and images organized by eras, people, places, and events.
“Photos,” Roudanez: History and Legacy, June 24, 2015, https://roudanez.com/photos/.
The Cabildo de Regla Project: A Digital Archive https://archipelagosjournal.org/issue07/gelbard-cabildo.html
Scholarly practice in the 21st century is marked by an existential demand to break down the walls of academia and work more closely with communities on the ground. Of the many shapes that this outreach can take, one of the closest to our traditional practices is the re-shaping of the cultural record to include historically marginalized voices in a close dialogue among equal partners. The Cabildo de Regla Project: A Digital Archive provides us with a model of how a scholar, completely new to digital humanities, has used their growing knowledge and access to resources to document and amplify the practices of a Caribbean afro-religious community with crucial historical and present-day significance for the region. The below exchange highlights the project’s growth, always in dialogue, always in relation.
Affirmations and Beatitudes
Dissent
Block em.
Freedom struggle
Divine Nine Says No