Toward a People's History of Landscape: Black and Indigenous Histories of the Nation's Capital

"Towards a People’s History of Landscape - Part 1: Black & Indigenous Histories of the Nation’s Capital," a level 1 institute that is being offered for the first time, will convene at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. The Institute will bring humanist scholars from across the university together to explore alternative approaches to scholarship and teaching landscape-oriented social histories, centering Black and Indigenous historical narratives in the founding of the United States and the District of Columbia. This institute’s focus is identifying promising approaches to teaching “difficult” or challenging landscape histories. The results of the Summer Institute will become part of an online repository of teaching modules available to faculty around the United States.