Hirsch Presents Paper, Lecture

 
Jerrold Hirsch, emeritus professor of history, gave a paper, “I Worked As Long as I Was Able: Slavery, Freedom and Disability in the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives,” at the New Directions in Black Disability Studies conference organized by the Carter G. Woodson Center at the University of Virginia, April 25.
 
Hurst also gave a guest lecture to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “The New Deal Era’s Federal Writers’ Project, History, Politics and Legacy.” He served as a consultant in the planning and implementation of the institute, held during July 2021. Hirsch was also a panelist on the Library of Congress webinar on “The Federal Writers’ Project: History, Policy and Legacy of Freedom in Image, Voice and Text.”