Wilmington University History adjunct Michael Dixon teaches students how to conduct investigations into a well-hidden past. In Michael Dixon’s case, he was indeed made by history. For him, even from childhood, history has been and continues to be his life. But not history of the high and mighty, though Dixon, an author, writer, speaker and…
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…