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  • Van Cortlandt House Museum

    Van Cortlandt House Museum 6036 Broadway, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY, United States

    SDP founder and director Joseph McGill visits historic Van Cortlandt Manor for a campfire conversation and sleepover.

  • Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses

    Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses 820 St. Louis Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

    Joseph McGill visits this restored 1831 French Quarter house, which offers a singular glimpse into the lives of the enslaved in an urban setting.

  • Neill Cochran House Museum

    Neill Cochran House Museum 2310 San Gabriel Street, Austin, TX, United States

    Join Joseph McGill for a campfire conversation, sleepover, and lecture at the only intact slave quarters in Austin, TX.

  • Mark Twain House & Museum, virtual

    Mark Twain House & Museum, virtual

    Joseph McGill, Herb Frazier, and Dexter Gabriel, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, is the moderator.

  • Literary Festival, Natchez, MS

    The Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration takes pride in announcing plans for the 35th annual Celebration. Using the theme, “Rites, Rituals, and Religion in the Deep South,” this humanities conference will explore life and death experiences in a series of presentations on religious traditions, burial rituals, cemetery history, mourning practices, and historic holidays which are […]

  • Jamestown Foundation, Jamestown, VA

    Jamestown Foundation, Jamestown, VA book signing event. McGill has a 30-year career in public history. He is the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, which allows people to sleep in extant slave dwellings to raise awareness and preservation of these often-neglected structures. His new book, “Sleeping with the Ancestors,” was released in 2023. https://wydaily.com/latest-news/2024/01/07/jamestown-settlements-directors-series-returns-for-2024-season/

  • Horry County Museum

    Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

    This event will be held at the Horry County Museum located at 805 Main Street, Conway, S.C. This event is free and open to the public.

  • 🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Joe McGill

    Join us for an evening of powerful storytelling and history with Joe McGill, Co-Author- of Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery and founder of The Slave Dwelling Project. Through his unique work sleeping in preserved slave dwellings across the United States, Joe McGill brings history to life and deepens our […]

  • Two-Day Living History Experience

    Internationally known historian Joseph McGill Jr., founder of The Slave Dwelling Project, is coming to the University of South Carolina for a powerful two-day living history experience.