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While a brass band played to the delight of tourists who clapped and swayed to the spirited beats that filled the air in Jackson Square one breezy January afternoon, a short distance away, University of New Orleans students stood sifting—literally—through the soils of time at St. Louis Cathedral.
A $750,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will help fund a collaborative public humanities effort among UNO’s Midlo Center, the Neighborhood Story Project and the Justice Studies Ph.D. Program.
Freedom on the Move, a digital database with information on people who escaped or attempted to escape enslavement in the United States, has been awarded the 2023 Digital Humanities Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
The New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School (Sci High) and the University of New Orleans’ Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies will host “Freedom on the Move in New Orleans,” a K-12 student creative showcase that explores the lives of freedom-seeking enslaved people in New Orleans and south Louisiana.
University of New Orleans public history students have taken their course work to the streets, specifically the streets of New Orleans, to share the stories behind some of the City’s recently renamed thoroughfares. As part of a service learning class led by Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies director Mary Niall Mitchell, students have created a project entitled "From Robert E. Lee to Mama D,” a collection of education resources related to the city’s street renaming process.