Episode #44 Book & Resource List

Thank you for registering for the Clements Bookworm! Please find below a link to the recording from today's program, Teaching Black History, featuring Latoya M. Teague and Richard Bell.

Link to the Recording - 6/17/22

Latoya M. Teague and Richard Bell

Clements Library Resources: Clements Subject Guide - African American History Resources [link] Digitized Collections: African American History Collection, 1729-1966 [link] Reframing the Color Line: Clements Library Curator of Graphics, Clayton Lewis, co-curated exhibits with Martha Jones, Professor of History and director of the “Hard Histories” project at John Hopkins University [link] Other Resources discussed: Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey by Richard Bell [link] The Great Courses + Wondrium, online courses by Dr. Richard Bell [link] Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt [link] Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marissa Fuentas [link] Rough Crossings by Simon Schama [link] Epic Journeys of Freedom by Cassandra Pybus [link] South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L Baumgartner [link]

The University of Michigan and its partner, the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, will host the University’s 2nd Annual Juneteenth Symposium through Saturday, June 18. The theme is Celebrate, Educate, Inspire. Celebrating one of the longest-running celebrations in the state of Michigan, the NAACP hosted annual Juneteenth celebration events since 1994.

Join the Juneteenth Celebrations

Picturing Michigan's Past The Clements Library invites you to participate in our volunteer project, Picturing Michigan’s Past, to describe the David V. Tinder real-photo postcard collection. Consisting of over 60,000 postcards, the Tinder collection paints a detailed portrait of everyday life in Michigan in the early 20th century. Volunteers are asked to view the postcards remotely through Zooniverse, the world’s largest website for people-powered research, and identify key information, like title, subject, and date, that will bring the collection to life. Participate Here

Student-Curated Exhibit Open Monday - Friday, Noon - 4:30

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.  Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Clements staff members Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth.

Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America will be highlighted during in-person guided tours at 4:15 pm ET on 6/23, 7/7, 7/15, and 8/19. Please register in advance at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb. Additional tour and exhibit browsing times will continue to be added through the summer.

Next Bookworm Episode - July 15  Classic Food and Restaurants of the Upper Peninsula An author conversation with Russell M. Magnaghi

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