{"id":4890,"date":"2021-05-14T03:56:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2021-05-14T03:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:56:28","slug":"emory-news-center-features-montalvos-course-slavery-and-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/05\/14\/emory-news-center-features-montalvos-course-slavery-and-the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Emory News Center Features Montalvo&#8217;s Course, \u201cSlavery and the Archive\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Emory News Center recently wrote a feature story about Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/montalvo-maria.html\">Maria R. Montalvo<\/a>&#8216;s spring 2021 course, &#8220;Slavery and the Archive.&#8221; The course involved undergraduates in conducting original archival research on the lives of enslaved people, including in Emory&#8217;s extensive collections in African American history in the Woodruff Library and Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.emory.edu\/contact\/staff-directory\/bruchko-erica.html\">Erica Bruchko<\/a>, a 2016 graduate of the History doctoral program and African American Studies and U.S. History Librarian at the Woodruff library, supported the students&#8217; research. Dr. Montalvo is an Assistant Professor and in her second year at Emory. Read a quote from the Emory News Center article below along with the full piece: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2021\/05\/er_montalvo_slavery_and_the_archive\/campus.html?utm_source=ebulletin&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Emory_Report_EB_110521\">History course uncovers \u2018archival silences\u2019 of enslaved people<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cMy goal is not to have them all become historians,\u201d Montalvo says. \u201cMy goal is to help them understand how to read, learn and question effectively enough to become the best of anything they want to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emory News Center recently wrote a feature story about Dr. Maria R. Montalvo&#8216;s spring 2021 course, &#8220;Slavery and the Archive.&#8221; The course involved undergraduates in conducting original archival research on the lives of enslaved people, including in Emory&#8217;s extensive collections in African American history in the Woodruff Library and Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,11,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-collections","category-faculty","category-teaching","category-undergraduate-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}