Tag: oral history

The Rest of the Remains: The East Marshall Street Well Oral History and Memorialization Project
Dr. Christine Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

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Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche explore the complexities of setting up the Health Humanities Lab’s East Marshall Street Well (EMSW) Oral History and Memorialization Project that grapples with memorialization and education around historical racist violence and stolen remains. This project proposes a kind of humanities practice that wrestles with unresolved histories that inform the present.

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What Remains: The East Marshall Street Well Oral History and Memorialization Project
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

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This article examines VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection and tracing current community-led efforts toward ethical research, oral history, memorialisation, and overdue reburial of the stolen remains.

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Media and the Movement: Activist Community Radio in the American South
Joshua Clark Davis / University of Baltimore
Seth Kotch / University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Joshua Clark Davis and Seth Kotch discuss their Playbacks Station project in Digital Innovation Lab project at UNC Chapel Hill , which makes hearing and accessing oral histories — such as those of social protest community radio in the South — more feasible.

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