MEDIA

“America’s Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them”  by Elizabeth Williamson,  Sept. 27, 2023. New York  Times (highlighting Lisa Fager’s work)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/black-cemeteries.html

“A girl’s gravestone mystified strangers. We may now know her identity,” by Teresa Vargus, Washington Post, July 20, 2023   (highlighting collaborative work by Lisa Fager and Mark  Auslander)  (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/19/nannie-gravestone-identity/

“Slavery-era embroidery excites historians, evokes heartbreak of its time” by Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY.  February 15, 2017.  (Mark Auslander’s  research on enslavement and remembrance, ) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/02/16/slavery-era-embroidery-excites-historians-invokes-heartbreak-its-time/96702424/

Front of Price, Birch & Co, "slave pen," Alexandria, Va.. 1861-65, Andrew J Russell, photographer (Library of Congress)

Celebration of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia by the colored people, in Washington, April 19, 1866 / sketched by F. Dielman (Library of Congress)