Displaced Histories
Neglected but integral stories to campus history, focusing on the spatial interface between campus and the surrounding community.
Our goal
Traditional university and campus histories rightfully celebrate growth, development, expansion, and progress. They enumerate great leaders, new buildings, new departments, and an ever-growing capacity for research, teaching, and learning.
But that is never the whole story. Here we offer a set of neglected but integral stories to campus history. In particular, we focus on people and places displaced by campus expansion—not as a condemnation of “progress” or a romanticization of a past—but to remember the invisible histories of a place that collectively define its identity.
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From public schools to the Japanese School to marches on the Diag, we've surveyed a variety of themes.
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