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Slavery’s History in the Age of the Database: Interface Design for Corrupted Files
Nov 15, 2016By responding creatively to the archival challenges presented by the social history of slavery, Harvard Professor Vincent Brown hopes to inspire new conversations about the inheritance of loss and the legacy of struggle.
Slavery in Effect: A History Design Studio Briefing
May 18, 2016People often talk about mass incarceration as if it’s just a continuation of American slavery. Historians know that’s not exactly right. Slavery was a legal system that allowed people and their descendants to be owned as chattel property forever.
HDS Exhibit Session One Discussion
May 02, 2014First discussion from the History Design Studio Exhibit