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Title: Aaron Terry Interview, March 7, 2020
Date: March 7, 2020
Creator: Aaron Terry; Kai Walther
Description: Kai Walther interviews Aaron Terry about his experience living with HIV and how it impacted his service in the United States Air Force.
Subject: Washington, DC; Air Force; LGBTQ; activism; London, England; Coronavirus; Italy; aging; senior; Wilford Hall Hospital; GRID
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS Activism in DC Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2298
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Interview with Karen Abbott, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Subject: celebrate petworth; neighborhood festival; memory; celebration; house parties; food; photographs; family
Country: United States
Collection: 2021 "Celebrate Petworth" Festival
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3033
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: In this interview, Karen Abbott describes how her mother, Norma Adkins, who was raised in Georgetown, made dioramas in the basement of their house in Petworth in the early 1970s following her retirement. A native Washingtonian who still resides in Petworth, Karen discusses the changes she's seen in Petworth.
Subject: diorama; art; craft; sewing; history; family; petworth
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3128
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Underground Railroad: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott surmises that her mother may have rendered this scene of enslaved persons escaping on the Underground Railroad by drawing from a story she was told as a child. Men, women, and children are bundled in clothes to prepare for their journey, and Karen sees prayer, joy, and fear etched on their faces and evident through their figures.
Subject: dioramas; underground railroad; history; slavery; freedom; storytelling
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3131
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Georgetown Kitchen: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott describes how her mother captured her grandmother’s kitchen in her house in Georgetown at 27 and N St. Karen believes the two children may be her mother and her brother, making the woman standing by the stove her grandmother, and the man in the chair her grandfather. Karen shares her own memories of this kitchen, where she was bathed in the old washtub. “Georgetown was home,” Karen states, and her mother was devastated when her grandmother sold the house in the 1950s, one sale of many prompted by and part of the neighborhood’s gentrification.
Subject: dioramas; family; kitchen; home; georgetown; gentrification; history
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3132
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Slave Auction: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott discusses this diorama scene depicting a slave auction, where three enslaved persons in chains are being sold to white buyers while another enslaved man begs for their freedom. Each figure in the diorama is made from stockings and sculpey clay.
Subject: dioramas; art; craft; slavery; slave auction
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3140
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Jazz Club: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie
Description: Karen Abbott surmises this scene was inspired by her mother’s attendance at a performance in a jazz club. The singer—who Karen believes may resemble Roberta Flack—is accompanied by a trio of musicians.
Subject: dioramas; jazz; music; club; performers; roberta flack
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3112
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Pool Hall: Interview with Karen Abbott, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott surmises that this diorama depicts a pool hall in Georgetown where men gathered to play pool, gamble, and drink together. The cards and broken chairs on the floor are evidence of the arguments and brawls that broke out regularly in the pool hall.
Subject: dioramas; pool hall; bar; cards; gambling; georgetown; fight
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3115
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Clothing Store: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie
Description: Karen Abbott narrates this diorama scene set in a clothing store during Christmastime. She calls attention to the cashier, the husband waiting while his wife shops, and details like the hat rack, purse, and gloves on the counter.
Subject: diorama; shopping; store; clothing; Christmas; library
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3118
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Classroom: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott describes this classroom scene as inspired by her mother’s attendance at Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in Georgetown. Her teacher, Mrs. Day is featured here, as is one male classmate who she remembered as frequently disruptive: he is captured turning around in his seat.
Subject: dioramas; school; classroom; learning; teacher; discipline
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3121
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Our Haven Park: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan
Description: Karen Abbott narrates this diorama set in “Our Haven” park, located on the corner of Illinois and Hamilton St. in Petworth, where unhoused persons slept in the 1960s and 70s. A woman with her belongings in a shopping cart and an inebriated man under a tree occupy the park in this scene.
Subject: dioramas; minature club; park; homeless; petworth
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3109
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Adam Canaday Interview, October 30, 2020
Date: October 30, 2020
Creator: Adam Canaday; HopeLily Van Duyne; Person responsible unknown
Description: Adam Canaday is a Journeyman Coachman with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation that runs the museums and historic houses and sites in Williamsburg, Virginia. Adam talks about his experiences working at Colonial Williamsburg since he was a small child. He addresses some of the issues that people of color face working at Colonial Williamsburg, especially when working as historical interpreters. This interview was conducted as part of class requirements for HIST:667 Oral History with Dr. Anna Kaplan in fall 2020.
Subject: Colonial Williamsburg; Native Americans; Chickahominy; enslaved people; African Americans; costumed interpreters
Country: United States
Collection: African American Historical Interpreters: The Experience of Working in the Past
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2577
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording

Title: Historic African River Road Connections
Creator: Adrienne Pine
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Community Archive

Title: Ama Interview, September 12, 2021
Date: September 12, 2021
Creator: Alexis Zilen; Ama
Description: The Humanities Truck participated in the 2021 “Adams Morgan Day” Festival, which focuses on the neighborhood of Adams Morgan and its culture, diversity, and history. Oral history interviews were conducted to gauge festival-goers' relationship to Adams Morgan, meaningful spaces in the neighborhood, and how those spaces may have changed over time. In this interview, Ama talks about enjoying Adams Morgan coffee shops and grading papers there before the pandemic. She also speaks about the changing city and gentrification.
Subject: Adams Morgan Day; coffee shops; Adams Morgan; Adams Morgan Day 2021; Covid-19; online teaching; pandemic; gentrification
Country: United States
Collection: Adams Morgan Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2970
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: DC History Conference 2022 Image 03
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Alexis Zilen
Description: Truck showcasing Downtown Displaced exhibit
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4043
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: DC History Conference 2022 Image 04
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Alexis Zilen
Description: Artist Uzikee Nelson preparing for interview with Angie Whitehurst, Caroline Morales, and Dan Kerr
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4044
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: DC History Conference 2022 Image 07
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Alexis Zilen
Description: Dan Kerr in truck office preparing for event
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4046
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Event Plan for DC History Conference 2022
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Alexis Zilen
Description: Event plan for Humanities Truck at DC History Conference 2022. Includes roles and responsibilities, equipment, and schedule.
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4048
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: DC History Conference 2022 Image 01
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Alexis Zilen
Description: Grad fellow Morgan working the button maker at the networking event inside the library
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4041
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: DC History Conference 2022 Image 02
Date: April 1, 2022
Creator: Alexis Zilen
Description: (L to R) Dan Kerr, grad fellow Caroline Morales, and community fellow Angie Whitehurst interviewing artist Uzikee Nelson (behind Caroline and Angie)
Country: United States
Collection: DC History Conference 2022
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4042
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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