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223 results for "Project"

223 results for "Project"

Black Patriots Project

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Co-Directors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Louis Wilson The Black Patriots Project was established to identify persons of color who served the Continental cause in the American Revolution. The project’s beginnings were rooted in the discovery of Professor...

Black Film Project

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Founding Director: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Executive Director: Jacqueline Glover - jglover@fas.harvard.edu The Black Film Project is designed to support any filmmaker who focuses on Black history and culture, and supports both narrative and documentary...

Timbuktu Library Project

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Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In 1998, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute launched the Timbuktu Library Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with the purpose of cataloging, preserving, and restoring the lost Library of Timbuktu, which...

Finding Your Roots Curriculum Project

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Directors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Nina Jablonski (Pennsylvania State University) The Finding Your Roots Curriculum Project is rooted in Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s popular genealogy series on PBS, Finding Your Roots, which explores history...

Central Africa Diaspora to the Americas Project

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Co-Directors: Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton (Boston University) The two main avenues of inquiry for this project include research on “The Kingdom of Kongo in the Wider World, 1400–1800” and “Angola and Its Role in the African Diaspora, 1500–1990.”...

Willis M. Carter Project

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Project Leads: Deborah Harding, Linden Havemeyer Wise, Robert Heinrich The Willis M. Carter Journal and Research Collection was shared with the Hutchins Center by Deborah Harding, who had spent a decade researching and compiling information on this former...

Liberated Africans Project

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Director: Henry Lovejoy The Atlantic slave trade lasted nearly four centuries and absorbed an estimated 12.5 million enslaved individuals, while the Indian Ocean trade began earlier and continued longer involving more than a million people. Over one...

Black Periodical Literature Project

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Co-Directors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins The Black Periodical Literature Project (BPLP) is devoted to the study of black imaginative literature published in American periodicals between 1827 and 1940. With initial funding from the National...