Leduc-Grimaldi, M. 2013. ‘Henry Morton Stanley, New Orleans, and the Contested Origins of an African Explorer: Public History and Teaching Perspectives’. The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age/Annual Meeting of the American Historian Association. Book of abstracts.

Conference abstract

New Orleans and the Wider World This New Orleans-themed experimental session, a hybrid panel, roundtable, film screening, and teaching session, examines the famed African explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s controversial 1859 sojourn in the Crescent City. In addition to scholarly presentations, the session will feature the results of a multi-year, multimedia public history research project at the University of New Orleans, involving collaboration between faculty and graduate/undergraduate students. A roundtable will introduce a documentary film segment and internet/digital resources. Audience members who pre-register (Contact: jmokhibe@uno.edu) may accompany the panel on a subsequent carriage tour of Stanley-related sites.