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Mills Kelly Receives Funding For Civil War Graffiti Preservation

Mills Kelly, Senior Scholar and Former Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM); Professor, History, has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for: “Off the Wall: Digital Preservation of (U.S.) Civil War Graffiti Houses.” Kelly will use the funding to support the building and publishing of a digital archive focused …

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Mills Kelly Receives Funding For Civil War Graffiti Preservation

Mills Kelly, Senior Scholar and Former Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM); Professor, History, has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for: “Off the Wall: Digital Preservation of (U.S.) Civil War Graffiti Houses.” Kelly will use the funding to support the building and publishing of a digital archive focused …

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246 Years Project: Morven Park Works to Tell the Stories of the Enslaved

Their names and stories deserve to be known. That is the foundation of the 246 Years Project started by Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia seven years ago.  On Monday, the organizers debuted the fruits of that work—an online database that sheds light on the lives of enslaved people whose records of existence were largely limited to property …

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