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Women Making History: UK researcher helps communities preserve their history

Sarah Dorpinghaus is the director of Digital Strategies and Technologies at UK Libraries. She is a trained archivist helping communities protect their history and focuses on digital collections and their underlying technology systems.

UK’s Anastasia Curwood’s Book Explores How Pioneering Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Influenced Policy

Anastasia Curwood, associate professor of history in the College of Arts & Sciences, discusses her new book “Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics”

UK folklorist explains the spellbinding history of Halloween

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, provides a deeper look at the history of Halloween.

UK’s Amy Murrell Taylor to be featured in upcoming PBS documentaries

The T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences helps tell the critical story of slavery in two upcoming PBS documentaries — "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" and "Becoming Frederick Douglass."

Digital Access Project Partnership to Make Local Slave Records Visible, Accessible

More than 60,000 pages of Fayette County’s historical property records containing information about enslaved people from the late 1700s through 1865 will soon be available to the public online.

American History Scholar Tracy Campbell Awarded Medallion for Intellectual Achievement

Created in 1990 and considered one of UK's most prestigious awards, the medallion honors a Kentucky resident whose accomplishments represent the pinnacle of education and creative thought in the fields of science, literature, art and philanthropy.

'Behind the Blue': Erik Reece on Kentucky Connections to the Scopes Trial, Parallels to Today

On this episode of "Behind the Blue," Reece discusses this project, the writing process, his influences, the importance of Kentucky in American letters and writing and how teaching informs his work.

Machine Learning Uncovers Violence During Apartheid, Earns Top Honor for UK Researchers

The Guggenheim Foundation has selected Stephen Davis and William Mattingly as recipients of its Distinguished Scholar Award for their work with machine learning to reveal new insights about apartheid violence.

Gift Strengthens UK Libraries’ Mission to Document, Preserve Kentucky History

UK Libraries has established a faculty chair position to oversee and expand the library system’s collaboration with the John G Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary.

UK Awarded $14 Million NSF Grant to Launch World-Class Cultural Heritage Lab

Using NSF funding, Brent Seales has gathered a team of experts from UK's College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences to build EduceLab — UK’s vision for next-generation heritage science.

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