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Final Reflection - Elise Daniells
Welcome to the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog! We continue the final reflection posts from our graduating student archivists series with an entry from Elise Daniells. Elise came to the CDA team because she knew one of our former student archivists Preetpal Gill and heard about the w...
In celebration of our graduating student archivists: A farewell - Jessica Salow
Welcome to the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog! We wrap up the entries for the Spring 2021 semester with a farewell to our beloved student archivists Myra Khan, Elise Daniells, Denise Mosso Ruiz, and Kate Saunders. As many of you have seen since the relaun...
Tutnese: The lost language of the enslaved- Elise Daniells
Welcome to the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog! We continue this semester’s CDA blog with a submission from Elise Daniells, one of our amazing student archivists on the CDA team who is a graduate student studying to get her masters in Opera Performance. Elise’s post is a wonderful in...
Happy Halloween from the Community-Driven Archives Initiative - Elise Daniells
This Halloween will certainly be a different Halloween than previous years. Thankfully, social distancing and safety protocols will protect many from exposure to Covid-19, but unfortunately, it will take away the excitement of costume contests and haunted houses! However, as most of us have learned,...
Archives of American Slavery - Elise Daniells
For the longest time, the documentation of African slavery in the United States has been reliant on the experiences and resources of White plantation owners and modern U.S. history textbooks written by White scholars. Due to the seemingly limited access to literacy for slaves, it was widely believed...