by Joseph McGill | Nov 25, 2017 | Blog Posts
My host on this journey, labeled me a public historian, so I had to seek the meaning of that term. “Although public historians can sometimes be teachers, public history is usually defined as history beyond the walls of the traditional classroom.” As defined, I will...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog Posts
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Mr. Washington is best known for his involvement in creating Tuskegee University. So, what does Booker T. Washington have to do with the Slave...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog Posts
After the Third Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference which was held in Columbia, South Carolina in September 2016, I felt that we had reached a saturation point. In those past three years, we had never exceeded 150 in attendance at any of the conferences. Board...
