Designed to ground legal history in place, the tours grew out of a University of Delaware master of arts in liberal studies capstone by DHS board member Karen Ingram (MALS, 2024). Ingram—who once worked for civil rights attorney Louis L. Redding—framed the route to place Redding’s cases in context through on-site conversation. Tour stops included Howard High School, the Claymont Community Center and Hockessin Colored School #107C, where attendees heard first-person accounts from guides Syl Woolford and James “Sonny” Knotts about life in segregated and newly integrated classrooms.
Author: Brian Leefeldt
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Student Project Highlights Delaware Connections to Brown v. Board of Education Decision
Karen Ingram, a graduating student in UD’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, stands before the Louis L. Redding House and Museum in Wilmington. Ingram created a bus tour that traces Delaware’s crucial role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which was handed down 70 years ago. Redding, the state’s first Black attorney, was part of the legal team that argued the case. -
PRESERVING FILM, PRESERVING HISTORY
Kevin Martin (left), curator of audiovisual collections and digital initiatives at the Hagley Museum and Library, and Jim Culley, alumnus of UD’s MALS program, examine a portion of the thousands of sponsored films from Culley’s family film studio waiting to be preserved and digitized at Hagley.
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MALS – University for a Day
March 16th at the Audion from 9AM-1PM
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MALS Alum Jim Culley arranged for the Cinecraft film archives to be donated to Hagley Library
“Unspooling Cleveland’s Industrial Film and Musical History” ran on NPR radio (IdeaStream) in Northeast Ohio. Thanks to the MALS program. Here is the link for you to enjoy.
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MALS Open Class Night
Tuesday, 11/7/23, 6-9 p.m., via Zoom
If you’ve thought about applying to the MALS program, Open Class Night (this year on Tuesday November 7 at 6 PM) is an opportunity to see what a MALS seminar is like. The class that we’ve opened up this semester is by Professor John Montano of the History Department. His course is: Interpreting the Past: POLITICS, PARTIES & CHARLES II
On the evening when the class is open to the public they will be discussing the Popish Plot and Exclusion crisis, along with the origins of political parties originating from ideological divisions over the past 20 years since the Restoration. John Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel” will help focus the discussion and explore the use of “moderation” as rhetorical device.
This class meets on line but many of our classes are in person each semester. For the foreseeable future, we plan to offer one of our classes online and the rest in person.
Please register at mals-info@udel.edu to attend Open Class Night by November 3rd and we will send you the Zoom link to the course. Please feel free to forward this on to someone interested in the MALS Program.
Hope to see you there!
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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
MALS Student, Patricia Magee, has published a Commentary in Confluence Vol. XXIX, the Journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.
Online version:
Confluence, the Journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs is located at https://www.confluence-aglsp.org/
Please click on the link below to read the full article.
Commentaries are brief opinion pieces that are intended to introduce an idea or identify connections between works which beg for deeper investigation and analysis. Explicitly not an account of a research project or a comprehensive investigative endeavor, a Commentary in Confluence is a snapshot, a single moment from the initial encounter with an idea or connection that suggests possibilities for interrogation toward new understanding. The Commentary is an appeal to think about an idea, to consider a question, and to take up in earnest the possible conversation toward which the Commentary points.
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Alumna Sally Donatello’s Photo as cover in Confluence
Alumna, Sally Donatello, from the MALS program (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) has a photograph featured as the cover art which is titled, “Ode to Trees” (2020), in Confluence, the Journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs. Online version:
Confluence, the Journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs is located at https://www.confluence-aglsp.org/ -
Delaware Today Article, Seniors Work Toward a Master’s Degree at University of Delaware by Roger Morris
A University of Delaware Master’s program is geared toward seniors seeking a second career—and the state foots the bill.
