Exhibitions
A series of digital exhibits designed to let you explore the social history of Harrisburg.
2024-2025 Jubilee for Democracy
Today, twelve buildings form the PA Capitol Complex in Harrisburg. They stand on the site of a once valued, now vanished, community called the Old Eighth Ward. The Eighth Ward was a once thriving, culturally diverse community that developed east of the capitol from the 1850s. Following the dedication of the new state capitol in…
Reflecting on Stories Retold
This semester as part of the Center for Public Humanities, I returned to the ongoing work of writing stories in place for the new Harrisburg Historical tour site which is the latest part of the Digital Harrisburg Initiative. More specifically, my work was on the story of the Black laborers who built Fort Couch during…