ABOUT US

We are a collective of students from Knox College in Galesburg, IL, researching the pre-history of the college under the supervision of Professor Catherine Denial, Bright Distinguished Professor of American History. We were also helped in this work by our teaching assistant, James Stratton. 

The vast majority of the work you see on this website was conducted during spring term (March-May) of 2021 in the course HIST 347: Museums, Monuments, and Memory. 

In that course, we studied public history in multiple forms, welcomed museum professionals to our classes, and discussed issues of decolonization, settler colonialism, racism, and bias, and the impact those categories have on museum work.

We are juniors and seniors at Knox, and our majors include History, Anthropology and Sociology, Computer Science, and Education, with minors in a range of fields, including History, American Archaeology, Chemistry, Creative Writing, Dance, Education, Journalism, and Religious Studies.

For spring term, 2021, all of us were working historians, immersing ourselves in local and national archives to find out the history of this region. Roughly half of us are white, and roughly half are Asian, Biracial, Black, or Latine.  Half of us are working class, and half are middle class. We represent a range of different gender and LGBTQIA+ identities.