
Underground Railroad project releases new 3-D model
The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
/news/underground-railroad-project-releases-new-3-d-modelThe 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
/news/underground-railroad-project-releases-new-3-d-modelThe new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website focuses on nine documented or rumored stops on the Underground Railroad in Central and Western New York.
/news/freedom-seekers-speak-new-underground-railroad-siteFive essays that explore how students created publicly-engaged projects are available online.
/news/rural-humanities-projects-explore-nys-past-and-presentThe RH Pamphlet collection publishes graduate and undergraduate student essays written as part of either our Community Partnership or Exemplary Project grants.Physical copies of the pamphlets are available in the A.D. White House.
/news/about-seriesIn an essay as part of the RH Pamphlet Collection, 2021 Exemplary Project Grant recipient Ethan Dickerman (M.A student at the Cornell Institute for Archaeology & Material Studies) walks readers through the background and inspiration behind the Tompkins County Rural Black Residents (TCRBR) project, a digital humanities/public history website....
/news/exemplary-project-dickermanIn the following booklet, 2021 Exemplary Project Grant recipient Jehan Roberson (PhD candidate in Literatures in English) reflects on her experience crafting a fictional narrative for the Voices of the Underground Railroad website, an online collection of stories mapped on to documented and rumored underground railroad stations and safe houses in...
/news/exemplary-project-robersonIn this essay booklet, 2021 Community Partnership Grant recipient Lyrianne Gonzalez (History) details her oral history work with Black farmers in New York State. The project was developed during the 2021 Rural Humanities Spring Seminar on Rural Black Lives.Click to read the essay booklet online!In preparation to conduct interviews with local New...
/news/community-partnership-gonzalezIn this iteration of our RH Pamphlet Collection, 2021 Exemplary Project Grant recipient Charline Jao (Literatures in English) reflects on the creation of her digital humanities website mapping the Free Produce movement, a project she developed during the 2021 Rural Humanities Spring Seminar on Rural Black Lives.Click to read the essay booklet...
/news/exemplary-project-jaoIn the first of our Grant Recipient essay series, 2020 Spring Seminar participant and Community Partnership Grant recipient Shaloni Pinto (ILR '20) writes of her summer working with the Poetic Justice project.Click to read the essay booklet online!Pinto built on Cornell's long-standing collaboration with George Junior Republic High School in...
/news/community-partnership-pintoThe deep history of human occupation across all of North America is Indigenous history – in fact, over 98 percent of human occupation in the Ithaca area took place before European-American settlers arrived. Americans and Canadians, both rural and urban, move through Indigenous lands and encounter Indigenous heritage as they go about their daily...
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