Battle Creek, MI, Joe & Herb Book Talk
2025-06-17

Juneteenth, Houston, TX
2025-06-18 - 2025-06-22

Juneteenth, Magnolia Plantation & Gardens
2025-06-21 | Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, SC, 3550 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC, 29414, United States

Historic Huguenot Street, Living History
2025-06-28

Horry County Museum, Family Reunion
2025-07-19

Clarke County Virginia, Burwood Morgan Mill, Living History
2025-08-23

Vacation Plantation — The Descendants Project
2025-09-05 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Broadside, 600 North Broad Street, New Orleans, LA, 70119, United States
The Descendants Project, the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, and The Slave Dwelling Project invite you to attend a screening of the new Blue Lobster Tales Production documentary “Vacation Plantation” with a panel discussion immediately following the showing. The documentary and panel features Jo Banner, co-founder of The Descendants Project, and Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project & Co-Author of Sleeping with the Ancestors, who critically review plantation tourism and its impact on the stories of enslavement.

Jay Heritage Center
2025-09-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Jay Heritage Center, NY, 210 Boston Post Rd, Rye, NY, 10580, United States
Joseph McGill, Jr., Founder of The Slave Dwelling Project, returns to the Jay Heritage Center this fall with a new book that he co-authored with Charleston-based journalist Herb Frazier. McGill has put the details about his initiative to sleep in former slave dwellings, travelling throughout the South and the North, into written form. His personal accounts bring greater awareness, honesty and humanity to many humble and overlooked historic structures. He will read from Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery and sign copies for the public.

The program and copies of the book will be free.

McGill, last spoke at the Jay Heritage Center in 2019 as part of efforts to launch a local committee to study and illuminate the tragic and complicated history of slavery in Westchester County. READ MORE HERE.

Registration link to come.

Western University
2025-09-29
Closed lecture for Public History, Museum and Curatorial, Museum and Cultural Studies in London, Canada.

HIS115B: LIVESTREAM TO BEAUFORT CAMPUS HIS115H: LIVESTREAM TO HILTON HEAD CAMPUS
2025-10-03
HIS115B: LIVESTREAM TO BEAUFORT CAMPUS HIS115H: LIVESTREAM TO HILTON HEAD CAMPUS Since 2010, Joe McGill has been sleeping in slave dwellings throughout the United States. This simple act has evolved into campfire conversations, living history programs, lectures, and conferences. Hear the journey in his own words and through excerpts of his book, Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery (2023), which chronicles the activities of the Slave Dwelling Project. www.slavedwellingproject.org NOTE: Before the program, reading Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery is recommended.

Southeastern Museum Conference
2025-10-21
Southeastern Museum Conference, presenter in Montgomery, Alabama. Visit https://www.semcdirect.net/ for more information.

Association for Living History Farm and Agricultural Museums, Board Training
2025-11-06 08:00 - 2025-11-07 17:00

Hasty Point Plantation, Georgetown, SC
2025-11-15
SC 250th Commemoration Living History at Hasty Point Plantation, Georgetown, SC

Lexington County Museum, Living History
2025-12-14

9th Slave Dwelling Project Conference
2026-10-01 - 2026-10-03
The Slave Dwelling Project (SDP) cordially invites you to partner with us for the 9th Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference, a pivotal event dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of enslaved peoples in America. This year’s conference, themed “250 Years and Counting: Reckoning, Resilience, and Remembrance,” will focus specifically on the invaluable contributions of enslaved and free African Americans in South Carolina during the critical period of 1770-1783. Please visit slavedwellingproject.org/sdp-conference-2026 for details.
Significant funding and support provided by the South Carolina 250th Anniversary Committee.
