Fall Research Expo 2022

Hard Feelings: Historic Black Perspectives on Confederate Monuments

This project focused on Black voices throughout American history discussing the presence of Confederate monuments. Black voices have not always been well analyzed in the telling of the history of Confederate monuments and major contention surrounding the monuments has brought the issue to the forefront of media attention. This project cataloged online archives from The Library of Congress, ProQuest, Newspapers.com, and the Digital North Carolina archives. Using keywords, we identified the articles of interest. Our definition of monuments or memorials included statues, plaques, sculptures, places named after Confederates, and the appearance of the Confederate flag itself. We compiled the articles into categories of "editorials," "news," "images," "cartoons," and "other" according to the newspaper the articles came from. In addition, the project covered physical archives from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. The project concluded with a bank of 2,150 articles and 6,000 addresses.

PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2025
CO-PRESENTERS
Olivia  Haynie
Olivia Haynie - College of Arts & Sciences 2024
Advised By
Donovan Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2025
CO-PRESENTERS
Olivia  Haynie
Olivia Haynie - College of Arts & Sciences 2024
Advised By
Donovan Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

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