Stuff Matters: A Look at American Material Culture

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Courtesy of S. Norman and Delray Beach Public Library

Stuff: American Material Culture

Stuff Matters with Dr. Sandra Norman

Join us for a free, fascinating, hands-on program that explores how the stuff we leave behind informs the future about who we were.

Material Culture studies are a way of looking at history. For most of American History, particularly through the 19th century, most of our written documentation that historians use was produced by educated, well-off, white men. Women, children, people of color, indentured, enslaved, poor immigrants all were left out of the documents. Using "stuff" we can try to place these people back into the story. During this interactive presentation that includes "stuff" for people to touch, we talk about how we can recover these lost histories.

Free; please register online at www.delraylibrary.org/classes-category/Humanities/

Presented by: Dr. Sandra Norman, Associate Professor, Public, Material Culture, Environmental, Florida Atlantic University.

Program provided by: American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.