Projects

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947, but it took another generation of Black and Latino players to make the sport truly open to all. Playing in remote minor-league towns, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow.

Featuring James “Mudcat” Grant, Orlando Cepeda, Tony Pérez, Jimmy Wynn, Grover “Deacon” Jones, J.R. Richard, Enos Cabell, Octavio “Cookie” Rojas, Orlando Peña, and Bobby Tolan.

A Long Way From Home

Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography is a research project and a pedagogical tool that explores the event of photography.

https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/collaboration-a-potential-history-of-ph...

Elm City Havens tells the stories of New Haven’s community spaces through a variety of media and methods. Its purpose is to provide a multimedia platform for learning more about these gathering spaces: their stories, their goals, and the communities to whom they belong.

Elm City Havens

The "Our Better History" project and the Historian's Eye website are an expansive collection of some 3000+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama's first term in office, the '08 economic collapse and its fallout, two wars, the raucous politics of healthcare reform, the emergence of a new right-wing formation in opposition to Obama, the politics of immigration, Wall Street reform, street protests of every stripe, the BP oil spill, the escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide and the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Historian's Eye

Interactive Crown Street is an ongoing research and pedagogical project that aims to produce an interactive, multimedia, web-based armature for telling stories related to the making and meaning of urban spaces, using Crown Street as a demonstration.

Interactive Crown Street

Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen, NYU (http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/JohnTchen) discusses the genesis and development of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). Recorded in Yale’s Public Humanities graduate seminar in 2011.

Listen here

“The Geneva Project,” a dance and multimedia performance inspired by Professor Laura Wexler’s Photogrammar project, was one of the highlights of the first annual conference hosted by Public Humanities at Yale, part of the American Studies Program.

The Geneva Project

“John Ashbery’s Nest” is a website centered on a virtual tour of the Victorian home of American poet, collagist, art critic and collector John Ashbery (1927-2017). The site provides a unique opportunity not only to see the art, objects, books and furniture in this house–the only home Ashbery has ever owned–but also to hear Ashbery read from related poems and talk about the provenance and resonance that these things, including the space itself, have played in his creative life.

https://ashberyhouse.yale.edu/about/introduction-0

Life in the Model City: Stories of Urban Renewal in New Haven is an oral history exhibit about redevelopment during the administration of Mayor Richard C. Lee.

Life in the Model City

Melting the ICE / Derritiendo el Hielo is a bilingual podcast and radio show dedicated to sharing stories of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is impacting families across the U.S., unpacking how this current system works and who is profiting, and to sharing information and strategies about how people are fighting back.

Melting the Ice