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Into the Archives

Laura Helton,

?Into the Archives is a pair of courses that introduce students to archival practice and theorythrough immersion in African American collections at the University of Delaware and beyond.The undergraduate course, Into the Archives: The Ephemeral Langston Hughes beginswith one literary figurethe poet, playwright, and activist Langston Hughesto ask studentswhat it means not only to archive, but also to think, write, and act archivally.  The companion graduate seminar in theory and methods, Archives Theory, will take up a related set of questions about the construction of the archive, giving students a toolkit of theory,keywords, and practices to support their independent work in the field of public humanities.

Course exhibition catalog the students edited after the Into the Archives class on Langston Hughes Catalog_final.pdf