At the Center, we’re aware that our programs and projects do not develop in isolation. Rather, we rely on many different sources to educate ourselves as we work to make that knowledge accessible to the public. In that vein of thought, we want to share some of the resources that have informed our research with the hope that you will find them just as useful as we have. If you have any recommendations, please feel free to let us know on our contact page!
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Public Humanities
- “The Engaged Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship
Race
- “The Lines that Divide Us” by David Michael
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Unicorn in Captivity by Marian Cannon Dornell
History
- “My City Was Gone: How Redlining Helped Segregate, Blight Harrisburg” The Burg
- Facing History and Ourselves
- The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- “Beyond Vietnam” by Martin Luther King Jr.
- Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, Barton, Michael, and Jessica Dorman. Arcadia, 2002.
Public Theology
- “What is Public Theology?” by Jayme R. Reaves
- “What is Public Theology?” by David Bromell
- On Being
2019 Symposium: The Common Good
- The Children’s Defense Fund
- Lanterns by Marian Wright Edelman
- Support Equity First
- POWER
- School Code of 1911
2018 Symposium: Home
- “DACA, Hurricane Irma, and Young Americans’ Dreams Deferred” by Edwidge Danticat
- “The Dominican Republic and Haiti: A Shared View from the Diaspora” interview by Richard André with Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz.
- “Radical Hope is Our Best Weapon” with Junot Díaz.
- “A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America” NPR
- 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing. Dauphin County Department of Community and Economic Development, 2016, 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing
- “How Redlining Blocked Car Ownership in Black Pittsburgh.” Storyboard, Carnegie Museum of Art
2017 Symposium:
Slavery & Justice
- United States History – Paxton Boys
- “Pontiac’s War and the Paxton Boys” by Michael Goode
- “The Shenks Ferry Indians on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, 1300 to 1550 A.D” by David Minderhout
- Harrisburg Schools: A Timeline
- Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
- Aliened American: The Biography of William Howard Day by Todd Mealy
- African Americans of Harrisburg by John Weldon Scott and Eric Smith
- The Underground Railroad by William Still
- Annals of Boys’ High School of Harrisburg by Howard J. Wert
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