by Joseph McGill | Mar 10, 2018 | Blog Posts
One sign of success is an invitation to come back to perform the service for which you were initially invited. Hampton Plantation in Charleston County, SC gave the Slave Dwelling Project that opportunity on Saturday, February 24, 2018. In fact, this would be the third...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog Posts
The Slave Dwelling Project is coming to you with much-needed improvements in 2018. Board members and volunteers are working diligently behind the scenes to ensure efficiency, fiscal responsibility and, quality programs. These needed improvements in no way lessen our...
by Joseph McGill | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog Posts
Sometimes some things take persistence. About two years ago, I got an email from Tim Talbott, Director of Education, Interpretation, Visitor Services & Collections at Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Tim was interested in...
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...
