Millions of people come to the Mall each year to visit and learn inside its museums and to gather outdoors at its memorials and monuments. By gathering at these places of memory, visitors share their understandings of our national values, rights, and obligations. In this way, the Mall is a place of ongoing conversations about what it means to be American. The Mall is also a part of the vibrant everyday life for the residents and workers of Washington, DC who call this city home. Histories of the National Mall is a mobile optimized website provides visitors with access to a rigorous interpretation of the history and culture of the National Mall as a space where national identity is built, negotiated, celebrated, protested, and remembered. Funding for the site has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Position: Co-Director (PI)
Awards: 2015 National Council on Public Historyâ€
s Outstanding Public History Project
The Bracero History Archive is an effort to collect, aggregate and make publicly available the documents and oral histories of the bracero guest worker program between the United States and Mexico (1942-1964). The major content partners on the project are the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso, the Smithsonian Institutionâ€s National Museum of American History, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University. The Bracero History Archive was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Position: Director
URL: http://braceroarchive.org
Awards: 2010 National Council on Public History’s Outstanding Public History Project
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This public history project brings together archival research and material culture from the Mt. Vernon Estates and Gardens to present a biographical narrative of the nationâ€s first First Lady. The site also includes an extensive archive, and a number of teaching modules that focus on key objects and themes from the narrative. Funding for the project was provided by a private donor.
Position: Director
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Papers of the War Department 1784-1800, an innovative digital editorial project, makes some 55,000 long lost documents of the early War Department available online to scholars, students, and the general public. By providing free and open access to these previously unavailable documents, Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 offers a unique window into a time when there was no law beyond the Constitution, when the federal government hardly existed outside of the Army and Navy, and when a new nation struggled to define itself at home and abroad.
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