Scranton in the Popular Imagination Panel (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Scranton in the Popular Imagination Panel
Writer: Julie Schumacher Cohen
Director: Julie Schumacher Cohen
Abstract: This is a recording of the first public event of the project. Scranton in the Popular Imagination with keynote speaker Jay Parini and local panelists Joe Kraus, Glynis Johns and Maria MacDonald.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlqWEVdIKlU&t=2s
Primary URL Description: You Tube video recording
Format: Other
Project Website (Web Resource)
Title: Project Website
Author: Carolyn Bonacci
Author: Julie Schumacher Cohen
Abstract: This is the project website and will include various events, updates and information as well as the oral histories/Scranton stories. Short cut link is: www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory/index.html
Secondary URL: www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory
Secondary URL Description: Shortcut
Project Brings Diversity to the Forefront (Article)
Title: Project Brings Diversity to the Forefront
Author: Julie Schumacher Cohen
Abstract: This article provided an overview of the project and specifically themes covered and still to come with a focus on underrepresented stories to be shared through the project.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/project-brings-scrantons-diversity-to-forefront/article_9a1dcae0-70db-5a6a-a94c-d69fda9d5b4e.html
Format: Newspaper
Publisher: Scranton Times Tribune
Hispanic Americans honor heritage with pride (Article)
Title: Hispanic Americans honor heritage with pride
Author: Jenny Gonzalez
Author: Alejandra Marroquin
Abstract: This article reflected on Hispanic Heritage Month by two of the project steering committee members and particularly on immigration as part of theme 5, "The Journey from 'Immigrant' to Citizen."
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/columnists/hispanic-americans-honor-heritage-with-pride/article_23ebf94e-8d06-548b-b0d9-380a47e7eb6b.html
Primary URL Description: Scranton Times website
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Newspaper
Publisher: Scranton Times Tribune
The 1902 Anthracite Strike: Causes and Consequences, A 120th Anniversary Evaluation (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: The 1902 Anthracite Strike: Causes and Consequences, A 120th Anniversary Evaluation
Writer: Bob Wolensky and Melissa Meade
Director: ECTV
Producer: ECTV
Abstract: “The 1902 Anthracite Strike: Causes and Consequences, A 120th Anniversary Evaluation,” 9/8/22
This keynote lecture featured Dr. Bob Wolensky, sociologist and anthracite historian, with panel respondent, Dr. Melissa Meade on, “The 1902 Anthracite Strike: Causes and Consequences, A 120th Anniversary Evaluation.” This event took place at the Lackawanna County Courthouse on Sept. 8 at 5:30 p.m.
This event is part of the Scranton’s Story, Our Nation’s Story project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities on the theme, “From the Industrial Revolution to Act 47 and Beyond.”
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy8R4pBOh8g&t=5s
Primary URL Description: Event Recording posted on YouTube
Secondary URL: https://www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory/themes/industrial-revolution/the-1902-anthracite-strike-causes-and-consequences,-a-120th-anniversary-evaluation.html
Secondary URL Description: Recordings are also available via the project website: https://www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory/themes/industrial-revolution/the-1902-anthracite-strike-causes-and-consequences,-a-120th-anniversary-evaluation.html
Access Model: Open
Format: Video
Format: Web
Humanities Lecture "Freedom and Our Founding: What do they mean for us today?" (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Humanities Lecture "Freedom and Our Founding: What do they mean for us today?"
Writer: Annalien de Dijn, Aziz Rana, Matt Mayer, Dave Dzurec
Director: Recorded via Zoom
Producer: Recorded via Zoom
Abstract: This Humanities Lecture & Audience Q&A on “Freedom and Our Founding: What do they mean for us today?" featured distinguished scholars Annelien de Dijn and Aziz Rana. This event took place via Zoom webinar with a University of Scranton watch party on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 5 pm.
This event is a part of "The U.S. Citizen and the American Founding," the second theme in the "Scranton's Story, Our Nation's Story" project led by The University of Scranton with community-partners supported in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information on this event and project, please visit www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory
Speakers:
Annelien de Dijn, Professor of Modern Political History and section chair of the Political History Department, Utrecht University, and author of “Freedom: An Unruly History”
Aziz F. Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and author of The Two Faces of American Freedom
This lecture focused on the evolution of the concept of freedom, how it has been understood and interpreted by the founders of our nation, and what this means for our democracy as we approach our nation’s 250th anniversary.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmOY_9lMkdg
Primary URL Description: YouTube
Secondary URL: https://www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory/themes/us-citizen-american-founding/humanities-lecture-freedom-and-our-founding.html
Secondary URL Description: Project website
Access Model: Open
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Removal and the Right to Remain in the United States, Humanities Discussion with Samantha Seeley (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Removal and the Right to Remain in the United States, Humanities Discussion with Samantha Seeley
Writer: Samantha Seeley
Director: ECTV recorded
Producer: ECTV recorded
Abstract: This Humanities Discussion event, "Removal and the Right to Remain in the United States" featured speaker Samantha Seeley and took place on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at 5 pm in the Henkelman Room at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton, PA, as a part of the "Scranton's Story, Our Nation's Story" project led by The University of Scranton with community partners.
Samantha Seeley, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. Her book, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the Early United States, highlights early efforts at U.S. nation building and the use of migration to construct a white republic. Situating the struggles of Native and Black Americans into the larger story of the early U.S, Seeley argues for a more inclusive way to tell the story of forced removal and its implications on early U.S. statehood.
This event is a part of the "Scranton's Story, Our Nation's Story" project's third theme, Indigenous History of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu095NRx8kg
Primary URL Description: You Tube
Secondary URL: https://www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory/themes/indigenous-history-of-nepa/removal-and-the-right-to-remain-in-the-united-states.html
Secondary URL Description: Project Website
Access Model: OPEN
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Curtis Zunigha, keynote lecture on Forced Removal of the Lenape People: History and Homecoming (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Curtis Zunigha, keynote lecture on Forced Removal of the Lenape People: History and Homecoming
Writer: Curtis Zunigha
Director: Curtis Zunigha
Producer: Curtis Zunigha
Abstract: On Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. Curtis Zunigha, enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Oklahoma) and co-founder/co-director of the Lenape Center in New York, offered a public keynote lecture on Forced Removal of the Lenape People: History and Homecoming in the DeNaples Ballroom of The University of Scranton.
Zunigha shared his experience and mission to heal the wounds of forced removal and colonization and his desire is to restore the circle of friendship, respect, and shared occupancy. This lecture is part of the Scranton’s Story, Our Nation’s Story initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and supported by a grant through the Office of Equity and Diversity. This visit is organized by the University of Scranton Office of Community Relations and the Scranton’s Story, Our Nation’s Story initiative, the Office of Equity and Diversity, and the History Department.
Last year, the University adopted a land acknowledgement statement which includes the Lenape as among those Indigenous peoples for whom Northeastern PA is their ancestral homeland:
The University of Scranton acknowledges the original inhabitants and nations of this land: the Lenape, the Munsee, the Shawnee and the Susquehannocks. May we be ever mindful of their legacy and contributions and commit ourselves to stewarding this land with care and compassion as we navigate our communities towards faith and justice.
Zunigha’s lecture is aimed at fostering deeper learning and engagement in ways that honor Indigenous peoples and cultures and the history and ongoing legacy and impact of colonialism.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlfnnddwWU
Primary URL Description: On Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. Curtis Zunigha, enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Oklahoma) and co-founder/co-director of the Lenape Center in New York, offered a public keynote lecture on Forced Removal of the Lenape People: History and Homecoming in the DeNaples Ballroom of The University of Scranton.
Zunigha shared his experience and mission to heal the wounds of forced removal and colonization and his desire is to restore the circle of friendship, respect, and shared occupancy. This lecture is part of the Scranton’s Story, Our Nation’s Story initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and supported by a grant through the Office of Equity and Diversity. This visit is organized by the University of Scranton Office of Community Relations and the Scranton’s Story, Our Nation’s Story initiative, the Office of Equity and Diversity, and the History Department.
Access Model: open
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Native History of the Wyoming Valley (Web Resource)
Title: Native History of the Wyoming Valley
Author: Peter Burke
Author: Adam Pratt
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to shed light on the far understudied indigenous history of the Wyoming Valley. The hope for this website is that it can reach a broad audience and allow inhabitants of the Wyoming Valley to engage in meaningful and informed discussions of the history of their hometowns and paths forward toward justice and remembrance.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://digitalprojects.scranton.edu/s/native-history-wyoming-valley/page/about
Primary URL Description: Weinberg Memorial Library Digital Project
Diverse input sought to assemble Scranton's story (Article)
Title: Diverse input sought to assemble Scranton's story
Author: Kimberly Crafton
Author: Gerard Hetman
Abstract: Describes the work of the project and invites diverse members of the community to share their story.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/columnists/diverse-input-sought-to-assemble-scrantons-story/article_55e04060-25fc-56b2-bdeb-53c7b0d9fe09.html/#cement-area
Primary URL Description: Scranton Times Tribune
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Newspaper
Publisher: Scranton Times Tribune