The past year was one of great activity and change at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. Much of that energy was derived from new staff members and new positions for […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Meet the New Staffers
Researching BlacFax and the Importance of Black History Board Games
Researching BlacFax and the Importance of Black history Board Games By Dionna Gant As part of the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) program, I worked during the summer of 2022 […]
The 2015 Baltimore Uprising was a Trans Turning Point
By Sophia Lola (JHU ’22) How did the 2015 Baltimore Uprising impact trans activism? This was the question I had as a student in Dr. Joseph Plaster’s “Queer Oral History” […]
Black History Month
The Diversity Committee would like to acknowledge Black History Month and its creator, Carter G. Woodson. In 1926, Carter established “Negro History Week” to share the contributions of “Blacks to […]
Black History Month at Homewood: Honoring Enslaved People at Homewood Museum
The story of Homewood and slavery did not end when Harriet Carroll left Homewood in 1816, taking the Ross family with her to Philadelphia. Homewood remained in the hands of the Carroll family until 1838, during which time many of the individuals enslaved by Charles Carroll of Homewood were relocated to another Carroll estate, Doughoregan […]
Black History Month at Homewood: The Dining Room and the Politics of Plenty
In honor of Black History Month, JHU Museums’ curators have prepared a series of blog posts about the enslaved community at Homewood in the early 1800s. Today’s post examining the roles of enslaved workers in dining and entertaining at historic Homewood is the second post in a series of three. To read the first blog […]
Black History Month at Homewood: Meet William Ross – Father, Fugitive, and Freedom Fighter
Homewood Museum tells the story of three families who lived and worked in this federal-period house between 1801 and 1832. Two of these families, the Rosses and Conners, were enslaved by the white Carroll family who owned the estate.When visitors tour Homewood Museum they are confronted by the juxtaposition of beautiful eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century […]
Black History Collections Spotlight: The African American Real Photo Postcard Collection
What does the old school picture postcard have to do with modern photo- and video-sharing platforms like Instagram and TikTok? Nothing, on the face of it. But, arguably, the postcard […]
Finding African American Composers in the Levy Sheet Music Collection
Before the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection was donated to JHU in the 1970’s, it was already a heavily consulted resource. Levy was regularly contacted by book publishers and magazines […]
Libraries & Museums Curators Dean and Plaster on Team that Wins $4.4 Million Mellon Grant
Drs. Gabrielle Dean and Joseph Plaster of the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums are key members of a team of Johns Hopkins University recipients of a $4.4 million Just Futures […]