Invisible Women: Telling the Untold Stories at New York's Philipsburg and Van Cortlandt Manors

FAIN: ZPP-284212-22

Historic Hudson Valley (Tarrytown, NY 10591-1203)
Elizabeth L. Bradley (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

The creation of a digital programs for children about the experiences of enslaved and free women in colonial and post-Revolutionary America, focused on the properties of Historic Hudson Valley; retention of six jobs, creation of one new position, and restoration of 20 part-time positions.

HHV requests a grant to hire and train staff and interpreters who will create and sustain a live, digital school program about the experiences of enslaved and free women in colonial and post-Revolutionary America. These virtual field trips, designed with meaningful input from educator and student evaluators, build on the success of our award-winning NEH-funded documentary People Not Property: Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North. Invisible Women seeks to flip the traditional narrative, one based on documents that marginalize the presence of mothers, wives, and daughters, not to mention skilled female laborers and entrepreneurs. It would provide opportunities to amplify voices that are rarely heard and showcase contrasting experiences that offer a profound and complicated portrait of a nation in progress. The grant would allow HHV to address the pandemic-driven demand for online engagement in the humanities and sustain HHV as a critical educational resource.