What a pleasure to introduce and moderate the exceptional panel "Landscapes of Liberation: D.C.'s History of Black Cemeteries and the Underground Railroad" on Nov. 13th as part of the Race, History, and Rock Creek series (offered by the Rock Creek Conservancy.) The panel featured Lisa...
Madeline Traces: Confronting the Marks of History: History Now, Fall 2025, n. 76 (special issue on “The Natural Resources of the United States in the Shaping of History”)...
I was fortunate to be awarded this fellowship to return (finally) to my book project, which pieces together the “history” of a family of global ancestries, and its ties to Chesapeake landscapes, from the colonial era to Reconstruction. Lives entwined by converging diasporas from Africa,...
Beyond Granite: Pulling Together presents a dynamic new series of installations designed to create a more inclusive, equitable, and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall. The Beyond Granite initiative is led by the Trust for the National Mall in partnership with the National Capital...
THE LAST BREATH before dawn. A moment of undefined edges slipping between dark and light, when it seems one might step through time and space merged. From the crest of Virginia’s Blue Ridge I look over what, at the close of night, appears to be a...
Dear Friends, Hot off the press! Counterpoint Press is just now releasing another edition of Trace with a new preface from me. I'm deeply grateful that Trace takes a second breath with this new edition! ...
Trace is featured in Rachel King's article "10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States" from July 4 in Fortune Magazine "It's often remarked that history is written by the winners. It's also an unmistakable fact that most history lessons taught in schools...
From Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy Published April 2020, Trinity University Press To my country: An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J....
Welcome to the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and the human experience. Self, Made: Exploring You in a World of We was a summer-long exhibition inviting “visitors to explore how we form and perform identity through dozens of new interactive exhibit experiences, works of...
Dear America, An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since my childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur asked, What then is the American, this new man? Most...