Seneca Village Digital: Bringing Collaborative Historical Archaeology and Heritage Advocacy Online

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Advocacy and collaboration with stakeholders have been important components of the Seneca Village project (now the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History or IESVH) since Diana Wall, Nan Rothschild, and Cynthia Copeland founded it in the 1990s. The project has involved people of diverse backgrounds and promoted the village’s historical significance as a stable, middle-class, 19th-century African American and European immigrant community, among the earliest landowners New York City “removed” through eminent domain. This work has begun to bring the village forward into public memory, but it is still underrecognized. Meanwhile, the digital revolution has proliferated misconceptions about it. This paper discusses a new collaboration among the IESVH, several academic institutions, and a private, non-profit park conservancy to create an accessible Seneca Village digital platform to bring together ongoing research and increase awareness of the village’s importance in our national heritage.

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• Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 920