project proposals to address the “long-existing fault lines” of racism, inequality, and injustice that challenge ideas of democracy and civil society. The project, “Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom,” will have four major components: a new research cluster at the CSSJ, an online “decolonial archive,” a major exhibition at Mystic Seaport Museum, and expanded courses on historical injustice in early America for students at Williams, Brown, and Mystic Seaport. “Mystic Seaport Museum is proud to collaborate with our esteemed partners in implementing an institution-wide reframing of the traditional narratives around
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juxtapose traditional narratives about early New England with engaging artifacts that interpret a different story about the past. The new research cluster, housed at the CSSJ, will focus on how societies founded on historical forms of injustice can become more inclusive and just. To create an online “decolonial archive,” the three partners will work with leaders in New England’s Black and Indigenous communities, Brown University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, the John Carter Brown Library, and staff at the John Hay Library to gather oral histories of New Englanders who have experienced the effects of centuries of institutional racism and dispossession. Part of the archive will consist of recorded community conversations organized by Brown and Williams, which will help ensure stories are gathered and shared in ways that reflect community desires, rather than in an exploitative, extractive manner. Over the next three years, the three partners will also offer a wide variety of learning opportunities for students of all ages. Brown and Williams will develop several cross-disciplinary courses focused on colonialism and historical injustices. Mystic Seaport will develop a new curriculum for its Munson Institute and conduct a summer Museum Studies internship for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students with an emphasis on issues of race and inequality in the museum profession. “This is just the beginning of what we hope will become a sustained conversation about the inequities of the nation’s founding,” said Brophy. “It is only by facing the past with an honest and truthful understanding of the forces that shaped the development of our nation that we can hope to become a truly just society.” (Brown University, 75 Waterman St., Providence, RI; https://cssj.brown.edu. Mystic Seaport Museum, 75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT; www.mysticseaport. org. Williams College, www.williams.edu) … On 14 January the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor (ECNHC) announced the recipients of its 2021 grants, in the amount of $108,787. Ranging from $1,500 to $12,000 and leveraging an additional $146,630 in private and public project support, the grants have been awarded to 13 non-profit organizations and SEA HISTORY 174, SPRING 2021