With generous funding from the Civic Switchboard initiative and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), members of the Hacking into History (HIH) project team partnered with local educators in Durham, North Carolina in October 2021 to launch The Civic Educators Pilot project. The purpose of the pilot was to explore how educators can use primary source materials in place-based learning to support new kinds of understanding. Do these approaches using locally-relevant documentation deepen historical connections? What impact do these “historical harms” have on participants interacting with difficult subject matter for the first time? Recruited participants from the Durham Public Schools (DPS) used the HIH platform to design curriculum, including exercises and activities for engaging students in hands-on learning about racial covenant clauses in Durham County and across the United States.

• Digital & Public Durham History: Works in Progress at Duke & North Carolina Central University (HIH presentation starts ~ 1:14:00)
• “Volunteers Search for Racism Written into Durham Land Deeds” Independent Weekly, November 30, 2022.
• “How Historical Housing Practices Led to the Racial Makeup of My Durham Neighborhood.” North Carolina Public Radio, September 13, 2022.