From Past to Pixels, Mira Lloyd Dock and the City Beautiful Movement ..read more

More on the history of Harrisburg from our Digital Harrisburg Project ..read more

By: Sarah Lee Meeks      On Tuesday, November 12th, several students from the Center for Public Humanities Fellowship program and internship braved the cold weather and took a journey through the city of Harrisburg. The group participated in a city-walking tour that brought to life the historical sites they had written about in their recent articles ..read more

Digitizing Disease ..read more

Digitizing Harrisburg’s Wildwood Zoological Park ..read more

Saturday, October 12th, the Midtown Scholar Bookstore hosted an unforgettable event featuring the award winning author and musician James McBride. The evening was a part of McBride’s “Heaven and Earth Gospel Tour”, celebrating the release of his latest book “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store”.  He read aloud short experts from this book and engaged ..read more

The latest from Digital Harrisburg ..read more

Growing up, “Catholic” and “Christian” were always interchangeable terms. I knew that my family and I were Catholics, and I knew that we were Christians, so I assumed that they must surely mean the same thing. It wasn’t until I entered elementary school and heard my peers talking about going to “Sunday school” on the weekends instead of “CCD” that something began to appear off. That being said, I went to public school all the way through twelfth grade, so religion was never something that I readily discussed with people outside of my own family. As a result, even though I came to understand th ..read more

It has, indeed, been a long and cold January for us all, literally so for far too many of us, struggling to heat homes, caught in a system full of bureaucracy and lacking in compassion. As we enter the month of February, the cold harshness of this system appropriately positions us to enter Black History Month, as we awaken to what was, what is, and what we are hoping to have and be. I’d imagine it was a cold Tuesday, February 1st in Philadelphia, when the first Freedom Day was celebrated in 1949.  It had been a long time coming, since 1941, when Richard R. Wright, Sr. organized a meeting ..read more

This year at the Center, we have been reimagining reconciliation as we prepare for our symposium in the spring. As we conversed about what reconciliation looks like in our lives, we found that forgiveness is a common theme that is commonly paired with this idea of restoration.   “I thought I had forgiven her a long time ago but now when I see her doing the exact same things she did to me to others, it just makes me so mad”, “I realized that I only forgave him for what he did to my family but not what he did to me”, “I forgave him but we aren’t friends like we were before. D ..read more