Krauthamer discusses new book at UN, Smithsonian

Barbara Krauthamer, assistant professor of History, gave a talk about her new book, “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery,” on March 21 at the United Nations.

 

She also spoke March 25 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

 

Jan. 1 marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Krauthamer’s new book features more than 150 historical photographs and examines the ways black Americans used photography to document and preserve the history of slavery, emancipation and freedom from the 1850s through the 1930s.

The book and a related exhibit at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, have been featured in the New York Times and also on the CBS Evening News.

 

The book is co-authored by Deborah Willis, professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.