#  Radcliffe: Shepherding the Blackwell Family into the Digital Age, A Panel Discussion  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 13, 2015** 

 04:15PM - 04:15PM EDT 

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 **Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

For more information, see the [Radcliffe Events page](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-sheparding-blackwell-family-digital-age-panel-discussion).

The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute recently digitized five Blackwell Family collections, which span from 1784 to 1981 and detail the activities of a remarkable family of prominent leaders in crucial 19th and 20th social movements, including abolition, prohibition, health care, women's suffrage, and education. With the support of a [grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/schlesinger-library-awarded-150000-digitize-blackwell-family), nearly 190,000 pages of correspondence, diaries, financial records, photographs, drawings, writings, and other papers are now online.

This event will begin with a demonstration of the digital content by Pablo Morales Henry, an archivist and programmer at the Schlesinger Library, and will be followed by a panel discussion—moderated by historian Susan Ware—about how the new materials, and online access to them, can generate new information and insights for students and scholars. The panelists are:

- John Frederick Bell, History of American Civilization, Harvard University—PhD 2017 (expected)
- Melanie Gustafson, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Vermont
- Richard S. Newman, Director, The Library Company of Philadelphia
- Elizabeth Reis, Professor, Women's & Gender Studies, University of Oregon, and Visiting Professor, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY

The event will conclude with a reception in the Schlesinger Library, where an exhibition features items from the Blackwell Collection.



 

 



 

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