Colonial Williamsburg

African Americans

Search term African-American Life / Community in the William and Mary Digital Repository.
Searching "Colonial Williamsburg" and "African Americans" in the library's online catalog (6/2009):

- LD6051 .W5m Amer.St., 2003, H63, Hodapp, Daniel Frederick. The Albert Durant collection : African American life in the 1940s and 1940s in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1 copy available at Swem Library in Archives

- E184.65 .K78 2003, Krutko, Erin. Colonial Williamsburg's slave auction re-enactment : controversy, African American history and public memory, 3 copies available at Swem Library and CW Rockefeller

- LD6051 .W5m Amer.St., 1999, C37, Carroll, Nicole. African American history at Colonial Williamsburg. 2 copies available at Swem Library

- E184.65 .P65 1999a, Pollard, Cherise Ann. "They can burn all the papers but they can't burn conscious" : the problematics of historical experience in African-American culture. 1 copy available at CW Rockefeller in Stacks

- AM7 .T48 1996, Macdonald, Sharon. Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world. 1 copy available at CW Rockefeller in Stacks

- E184.65 .L38 1995a, Lawson, Anna Logan. "The other half" : making African-American history at Colonial Williamsburg. 1 copy available at CW Rockefeller in Stacks

- F234 .W7 F67 1993a, Foster, Andrea. "They're turning the town all upside down" : the community identity of Williamsburg, Virginia before and after the Reconstruction. 1 copy available at CW Rockefeller in Stacks

- E443 .K37 1993, Katz-Hyman, Martha B. "In the middle of this poverty some cups and a teapot:" the material culture of slavery in eighteenth-century Virginia and the furnishing of slave quarters at Colonial Williamsburg. 4 copies available at CW Rockefeller

- F234 .W7 F67 1993a, Foster, Andrea Kim. "They're turning the town all upside down" : the community identity of Williamsburg, Virginia before and after the Reconstruction. 1 copy available at Swem Library in Rare Book-Virginia

- LD6051 .W5m Educ., 1989, E45, Ellis, Rex M. Presenting the past : education, interpretation and the teaching of Black history at Colonial Williamsburg. 2 copies available at Swem Library

To search for further material, see Finding Materials in the SCRC for an introduction to the SCRC Collections Database, card catalogs, Flat Hat-William & Mary News-Alumni Gazette index, etc.

Questions? Contact the SCRC at spcoll@wm.edu or 221-3090, or visit the Special Collections Research Center in the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary (hours).

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