Creating the Black + Jewish Exhibit

by | Aug 20, 2022

Adina Langer, curator at the Kennesaw Museum of History and Holocausat Education (GA), who guided the creation of the exhibit “Black + Jewish: Connection, Courage, Community,”  which will be on display at The Jewish Center of Princeton from September 17 – October 31,...

Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History

by | Aug 16, 2018 | Article

Since 2014, graduate student Katie Merriman points out sites, past and present, related to the Muslim history of Harlem during her free walking tours of the area.  Click here to read about highlights of the tour through a rapidly changing neighborhood.  Click here to...

Formerly Enslaved Dane, a Pioneer to Iceland

by | Apr 21, 2018 | Article

Hans Jonathan, born enslaved in St. Croix a Danish possession in 1784, fled to Iceland when a Danish court denied his assertion that he was granted freedom by the crown prince for service in the Danish navy.  The Danish government rejected a request by one of his...

Implicit Bias and American History

by | Mar 23, 2018 | Opinion

Chernoh Sesay Jr. illustrates how applying the social psychology concept of implicit bias to “historical studies of race, human bondage, and post-slavery, might . . . open new revelations and pose new remedies for the issue of race in the United States.” ...