{"id":19519,"date":"2016-03-08T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=19519"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:25","slug":"carleton-history-grad-produces-documentary-film-for-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2016\/carleton-history-grad-produces-documentary-film-for-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"History Grad Produces Documentary Film for International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n History Grad Produces Documentary Film for International Women\u2019s Day\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Allison Smith, a recent graduate student with an MA in Public History, has produced a film called Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes from an Old House <\/em>that will be launched on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 for International Women\u2019s Day. The launch will take place on the Heritage Toronto website<\/a> as a part of their programming for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Ann Shadd by Canadian artist Teresa Fenton<\/a>, from Halifax, who is a graduate in fine arts from NSCAD and is also a Carleton grad in English from 1980.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The documentary film is about a collection of letters to and from African American abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd between 1851 and 1863 \u2013 years that she lived in Canada. The letters were left in her house and eventually forgotten when she returned to the United States. They were rediscovered in 1974 by the then owners of the house after it had been torn down and just before the rubble was burned. The letters were accepted by Archives of Ontario for preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allison Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The premise of Smith\u2019s film is that, had the letters been found before the 1960s, they might not have been offered to or accepted by the archives. Smith argues that it was the emergence in the 1960s of ideas about social history and the civil rights movement that led the owners of the letters and the archives to realize their importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith\u2019s completed the film as part of her master\u2019s research project (reflections)<\/a> supervised by the Department of History\u2019s James Miller and John Walsh, with David Dean as third reader.   She drew upon experience gained in Michael Ostroff\u2019s undergraduate history class in documentary filmmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Inquiries:
\n<\/strong>Chris Cline
\nMedia Relations Officer
\nCarleton University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 1391
\nchristopher_cline@carleton.ca<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allison Smith, a recent graduate student with an MA in Public History, has produced a film called Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes from an Old House that will be launched on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 for International Women\u2019s Day. The launch will take place on the Heritage Toronto website as a part of their programming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90,70],"tags":[210,211,212],"class_list":["post-19519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fass-news","category-history","tag-allison-smith","tag-mary-ann-shadd","tag-teresa-fenton"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34176,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions\/34176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}