Currently Underway

  • No projects currently (2022) underway.

Completed

Portsmouth Village National Register Documentation 2017-21
Cape Lookout National Seashore, National Park Service

  • Project to enhance documentation of African-American history in the Portsmouth Village National Register nomination (originally listed 1978). Anne Whisnant is Principal Investigator. Co-investigators are Dr. Lynn Harris (East Carolina University) and Dr. Kristen Baldwin Deathridge (Appalachian State University).
  • Contract with the National Park Service via the Piedmont South Atlantic CESU and East Carolina University.

Cover image, Black Lives, Whitened Stories

 

African-American Historic Resource Study 2017-20, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, National Park Service:  Black Lives and Whitened Stories: From the Lowcountry to the Mountains, completed under contract with the National Park Service through the Organization of American Historians. Project dates: 2017-21. Published 2021.

 

Resources on the History of Slavery at UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019

This public document is a curated list of resources on slavery and UNC-Chapel Hill’s past and present. The materials here illuminate the University’s foundational relationship to slavery and include notable reflections on slavery’s legacy there. Spanning four centuries, the sources below detail the lives of both prominent enslavers and enslaved workers as well as contemporary activist movements that have engaged the history of slavery and its legacy on campus. This was prepared in 2019 by Danielle Dulken, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Dr. Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Director, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University; and Adjunct Associate Professor of History & American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. The final product is a Google Doc, accessible here or a PDF, Resources on the HISTORY OF SLAVERY AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL.

 

 

Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (Anne Mitchell Whisnant with Marla R. Miller, Gary Nash, and David Thelen), Organization of American Historians/National Park Service, 2011.

 

Shenandoah National Park visitor handbook (cultural history sections). Project dates: October 2009 – September 2010. Contracted with Donning Company Publishers for the Shenandoah National Park Association. Honorable mention, 2012 Association of Partners for Public Lands Media & Partnership Award, Non-Partner Published Work.

 

 

Cape Lookout National Seashore Historic Resource Study, Gateway to the Atlantic World: Cape Lookout National Seashore Historic Resource Study, completed under contract with the National Park Service through the Organization of American Historians. Project dates: January 2008 – February 2010. Published 2015.

 

First-ever book for young readers about Blue Ridge Parkway history: When the Parkway Came (2010).

 

DeSoto National Memorial administrative history, Small Park, Large Issues: De Soto National Memorial and the Commemoration of a Difficult History, completed under contract with the National Park Service through the Organization of American Historians. Project dates: May 2006 – December 2007.

 

First new history of the Blue Ridge Parkway to be published in more than thirty years: Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

 

Peer reviews of four NPS administrative histories contracted by the Organization of American Historians, 2021, 2013, 2007 and 2004.

Peer review of draft Historic Resource Study, Blue Ridge Parkway, Fall 2006.