Digital Harlem forms one part of a collaborative research project on everyday life in Harlem between 1915 and 1930 undertaken by four historians in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, in Australia: Shane White, Stephen Garton, Graham White, and Stephen Robertson, with the assistance of Delwyn Elizabeth, Nick Irving, Michael Thompson, Conor Hannan, and Anna Lebovic.

Unlike most studies of Harlem in the early twentieth century, this project focuses not on black artists and the black middle class, but on the lives of ordinary African New Yorkers. It does so primarily by systematically exploring a sample of legal records and black newspapers. More on the research project

Since 2017 the website is a customised view of our research database which uses the Heurist knowledge management system (HeuristNetwork.org), developed by Ian Johnson and Artem Osmakov (University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences). The original website was built by Damien Evans, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Wilson of the Arts eResearch unit at the University of Sydney.

The websites were designed as research tools: they make it possible to search and map our research. They do not offer any interpretation of that material other than the narratives associated with maps related to the lives of selected individuals and to particular topics in our research. Our interpretations of this material can be found in our publications and on the project blog.

 

 

Questions: contact Stephen Robertson [srob4757@gmail.com] or comment on the project blog.

 

Acknowledgements

This project was supported by a Discovery Grant, DP0343148, from the Australian Research Council, and a Sesqui Research and Development Grant from the University of Sydney