As part of our effort to encourage deeper engagement with this history, we have begun encouraging faculty and students at Dickinson to write down reflections on some key question raised by our research.\u00a0 How should we characterize the relationship between nineteenth-century students and their college janitors?\u00a0 If the college does rename a building such as Cooper Hall, which nineteenth-century figure should receive such an honor?\u00a0 Was the prejudice which black residents of Carlisle encountered after the Civil War an illustration of \u201cJim Crow North\u201d or does it deserve a different designation?\u00a0 Our first open discussion topic for 2019 concerns memorialization on campus.<\/p>\n
As part of our effort to encourage deeper engagement with this history, we have begun encouraging faculty and students at Dickinson to write down reflections on some key question raised by our research.\u00a0 How should we characterize the relationship between nineteenth-century students and their college janitors?\u00a0 If the college does rename a building such as … <\/p>\n