Winning the right to vote alongside male counterparts didn’t come easy for New Jersey women. The 1776 New Jersey Constitution had enfranchised men and women who were worth fifty pounds. But, this brief period of inclusivity came to an end in 1807 when the Assembly passed a law limiting suffrage to white male taxpayers ((Lewis,…
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The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective Memory
The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective memory is an article published by the San Fransisco Musem of Modern Art in April 2018. _______ Mike Dixon first met Rein Jelle Terpstra in a bowling alley parking lot in Elkton, Maryland, in 2015. Terpstra, an artist from the Netherlands interested in the connections between perception and…
Lynchings – Documenting a Violent Chapter in Cecil County’s Past
The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project is working to open a discussion about a violent chapter in Maryland’s past, racial terror lynchings. These troubling incidents have not generally been studied or documented, so little is known about this grim history. Thus, the project is working to address this gap in our understanding of these episodes of…
Ending Segregation at Harford Memorial Hospital
Harford Community College is undertaking a project focused on increasing understanding of the Civil Rights Movement in Harford County. This three-year investigation funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is designed to involve students as they do original research, complete interviews, analyze secondary sources, and develop scholarly narratives that provide a stronger understanding…