This event symboloized the project launch of “Synergies: Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture (#AADHum),” sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This convening of African Americanists and Digital Humanities scholars from around the greater Washington D.C. region was designed to generate lively conversations about opportunities to utilize new methods, archives and tools of the Digital Humanities to ask and answer intriguing questions in African American history and cultural studies, as well as ways to broaden the reach of the Digital Humanities in these areas.
Half-day meeting for scholars to learn about the vast range of research materials available to them at UMD for the study of the African American experience.