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In June, 2001, Dr. Denise Dallmer, College of Education, conducted a one-week graduate course for K-12 teachers. The course focused on the historical and cultural contexts of the Underground Railroad and included tours of Maysville and Bracken County, Kentucky, and Ripley, Ohio. Students created a website, which contains local historical photographs and provides examples of lesson plans for other teachers to use in their classrooms (www.nku.edu/~undergroundrr). Students returned in the fall with videotaped presentations of their new Underground Railroad curriculum. Those presentations will be used to make a CD on how to teach the Underground Railroad. Students will receive a copy of that CD along with their choice of a KET video or classroom textbook on teaching the Underground Railroad provided by a grant from the Kentucky Heritage Council.
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Dr. JoEllen Burkholder, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy, has safely returned from Potosi, Bolivia, where she spent time researching slavery and methods of escape from the mines and silver processing furnaces of that region. This fall, Dr. Burkholder is conducting a language and culture class, which will be collecting oral histories in association with the Oral History Committee of the Northern Kentucky African American Heritage Task Force. Additionally, Dr. Burkholder continues her work as Field Supervisor and Archaeological Consultant at the historical archaeological site of Preston Plantation where she and her students are involved in archaeological demonstrations, graveyard registration, and oral history collection.
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After formal approval from the Kentucky Heritage Council, Professor Peter Killoran, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy, began taking students on a phase one survey of the future home of NorthStar Productions' outdoor drama theater in Bracken County, Kentucky. Students from Professor Killoran's Bioarchaeology and Introduction to Archaeology classes and from S.T.A.R. (Students Together Against Racism) are assisting in the survey/archaeological dig. So far they have found historic ceramic pieces and building materials such as plaster cut nails and window glass dating to the expected time frame. This material will provide a more accurate portrayal of the types of activities and the economic backgrounds of the individuals living on this land.
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Dr. Kristine Yohe, Department of Literature and Language, addressed the Northern Kentucky African American Heritage Task Force on Toni Morrison's Beloved and local Underground Railroad history. Additionally, Dr. Yohe presented a paper on Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec at Wilberforce University's Second International Slave Narrative Conference in October.
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