New Jersey Historical Commission - NJHC - Big Ideas Discussion

The next panel in the Revolution NJ series “Big Ideas: Concepts for the 250th," “How Do We Know What We Know?" is scheduled for Friday, April 22, at 12 p.m. 

The panel will provide an overview of how historical research is done and the ways in which our knowledge about the world is constructed, limited, and understood: https://bit.ly/3Iq6ylq Panelists will specifically explore what the "archive" is while also identifying approaches that researchers should consider when exploring topics that have gaps in the historical record. 

Speakers include: Dr. Britt Rusert, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Ms. Joy Bivins, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. 

The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Public History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. This event is free but pre-registration is required. Teachers can receive one-hour of professional development credit for attending this session. https://bit.ly/3Iq6ylq #RevNJProfDev

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