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2017 CRL Primary Source Awards

Spring 2017 | Volume 36, Number 2 | Download PDF

2017 CRL Primary Source Awards

In This Issue

Comments from CRL President Bernard Reilly


CRL Primary Source Awards

A brief overview of the program.


2017 Award for Access

"Umbra Search African American History"

Cecily Marcus, Principal Investigator, Umbra Search African American History; Curator, Givens Collection of African American Literature, Performing Arts Archives, and Upper Midwest Literary Archives, University of Minnesota

Nominated by: Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota 


2017 Award for Research

"What Must Be Remembered: An Exhibition Inspired by Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard"

Pellom McDaniels III, Curator of African American Collections, Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Emory University 


2017 Award for Teaching

"Fighting the Atlantic Slave Trade"

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri

Nominated by: Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian, University of Missouri 


2017 Honorable Mention

A list of honorable mention projects


United States

Unloading a Cotton Steamboat, New Orleans, c. 1890. Stereograph card from the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection. Courtesy of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.