Mapping Our Cultural History
This project will be the archival database for RCUCH. Initially this website will focus on mapping the larger Boston area, but thereafter will begin filling in areas of the map on a global level as these areas relate to the research and teaching projects affiliated with or initiated by the Center. The multi-level map will create an architecture for the database that can accommodate current, ongoing, and future research and teaching projects as well as archive completed projects. Some of these levels include: sociological maps of community-based demographics, community activism projects, historical documentation of a community; topographical maps of land mass changes, land use changes, land rights history; interpretive mapping of intersections in the literary, political, economic, racial, artistic aspects of historical events. The Mapping Project will integrate ongoing research in cultural history at UMB with Center activities and initiatives in order to create an archival resource for research, teaching, and community-based projects at UMB, external institutions, and the public schools.
Politics, Literary Culture & Theatrical Media in London : 1625-1725
Created by Malcolm Smuts, UMB History, Cheryl Nixon, UMB English, and Lisa Link, UMB IT Services
The Connector
Created by Lisa Link, UMB IT Services
Interviews with people who lived in New Haven about the urban renewal project in the 1950s that resulted in the dispersal of the Jewish Community in the Legion Avenue area to make way for the "connector" and what was to be America's model city. Also links to articles, exhibits, other documents on this topic.
Created for the Orchard Street Shul Cultural Heritage Artists Project, exhibit, opens Dec, 2009, http://www.cbrubin.net/orchard-project/history.html
Reproductions of historic photographs courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven