Research Updates
We are thrilled to host this special series of recorded history lectures by Chief Mark Peters of the Munsee Delaware Nation.
The Murder of Teedyuscung and the Theft of Wyoming
The Seven Years War (1756-1758)
The Treaty of Easton, signed by the Munsee Chief, Egohohowen, on October 1758
Munsee History (14,000 BP – 1763)
Settlement on the Thames, 1783 Land Claim
What we are inspired by
Land Grab Universities
Nearly 11 million acres of Indigenous land. Approximately 250 tribes, bands and communities. Over 160 violence-backed treaties and land seizures. Fifty-two universities….
United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network
PROMOTING INDIGENOUS DATA SOVEREIGNTY THROUGH DECOLONIZING DATA AND INDIGENOUS DATA GOVERNANCE Indigenous data sovereignty is the right of a nation to govern…
Scarlet and Black at Rutgers University
Scarlet and Black is the title of the project undertaken by the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Populations in Rutgers History, created in…
National Monument Audit
The National Monument Audit, produced by Monument Lab in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, assesses the current monument landscape across the…
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?
By Jill Lepore September 27, 2021 When Deidre Barnes was a kid in North Carolina, horsing around in the back seat of the…
Pathways to the Past: The Enslaved African Legacy
Tour Locations Parade GroundVan Cortlandt HouseTippett HomesiteColonial RoadMill StoneMill SiteMill PondKingsbridge Burial GroundAfrican Burial Ground For approximately 200 years, the Van Cortlandt…
Decolonizing Archaeology: The African Burial Ground 30 years later
Views from the Watershed Podcast Tour
Mapping Slavery Project
https://mappingslavery.nl/
Confronting the Netherlands’ Role in the Brutal History of Slavery
Historians studying the Netherlands’ history sometimes refer to the 17th century as the “Dutch Golden Age.” The term refers to an era…
Disability as Colonialism / Colonialism as Disability
https://youtu.be/4wRkBcpI5qk Real Art Ways presents a conversation between New York-based artist Alex Dolores Salerno, Puerto Rico-based artist Miguel González Cordero, and exhibiting…
Key Shinnecock Burial Ground At Sugar Loaf Hill Will At Long Last Be Returned To Tribe
“Tuesday, July 20, was a day of celebration for members of the Shinnecock Nation, some of whom gathered at the summit of…
Professor Pepijn Brandon receives Vidi grant to research Land Grabbing and Dutch Expansion
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Professor Pepijn Brandon receives Vidi grant of 800,000 euros to research the history of land grabbing and Dutch expansion…
Amsterdam’s mayor apologizes for the city’s role in slavery
On July 1, 2021, mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized, on behalf of the city council, for the involvement of former city…