Events & Media

EVENTS

5/17/2024: "A City Whose Walls Are Salvation: Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832," presentation by Hardy Williams at Clifton Mansion on the occasion of the 229th birthday of Johns Hopkins.

4/17/2024: "Johns Hopkins & Slavery, A Retrospective," presentation at the Wednesday Club (Maryland Club), Baltimore, Maryland.

12/24/2023: Remarks at the 150th Anniversary of Johns Hopkins' Death, Clifton Mansion, Baltimore, Maryland.

12/14/2023: "Johns Hopkins and Slavery: Toward a New Biography of Our Founder," presentation to the JHU Academy at the Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Welch Library, Baltimore, Maryland.

10/27/2023: "Stories of Slavery and Freedom: Searching for Quaker Manumissions in Maryland," presentation for DREAMS conference at Johns Hopkins University. With Hardy Williams '24, Lydia Wan '26, Qingxi Wang '26. Watch the video here.

10/14/2023: "Stories of Slavery and Freedom: Manumissions in Anne Arundel County," presentation at Historic Linthicum Walks House, Crofton, Maryland. With Qingxi Wang '26.

9/30/2023: Remarks at the Baltimore City Historical Society's annual awards celebration, Clifton Mansion, Baltimore, Maryland.

5/19/2023: "Celebrating the Risk-takers: John Brown and Johns Hopkins," presentation at the East Baltimore Historical Library's 2023 fundraising event on the occasion of Johns Hopkins' 228th birthday, Hopkins-Henderson School, Baltimore, Maryland.

5/16/2023: "Was Johns Hopkins an Enslaver? Does it Matter?," presentation to the Hamilton Street Club, Baltimore, Maryland. With Sam Hopkins.

4/21/2023: "Stories of Slavery and Freedom: Searching for Quaker Manumissions in Maryland," presentation sponsored by the Peace Committee of Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. With Hardy Williams '24, Bailey Pasternak '25, Lydia Wan '25, Qingxi Wang '26.

2/25/2023: "Navigating Slavery: The Goose Creek Meeting and the Hopkins Family," presentation for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Historic Records & Deed Research Division, Loudoun County, Virginia. With Ed Papenfuse, Lee Lawrence, and Lori Kimball.

5/19/2022: "Johns Hopkins & His Family: Quaker Roots and Confronting Slavery," First Annual Johns Hopkins Birthday Symposium, with Cherise Kim, Hardy Williams, Michael Johnson, Ed Papenfuse, Samuel Hopkins, and Stan Becker. Watch the video here.

5/11/2022: "Seeking the Truth: Johns Hopkins and Slavery," presentation to the JHU Academy at Homewood, Eisenhower Library. With Ed Papenfuse.

3/31/2022: "So, Your Founder Was a Quaker?," Universities Studying Slavery Spring 2022 Symposium, ‘Pandemics, Protests, and the Legacies of Slavery’, Guilford College and Wake Forest University. With Sam Hopkins.

3/9/2022: "Seeking the Truth: Johns Hopkins and Slavery," presentation to the Hamilton Street Club, featuring Ed Papenfuse, Sam Hopkins, and Stan Becker.

12/3/2021: "Seeking the Truth: Johns Hopkins and Slavery," Conversations on Slavery, Racism, and the University, JHU Symposium. See https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/12/04/conversations-slavery-racism-university-johns-hopkins/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ghgf_ceDWo&t=9s.  

MEDIA

Steve Bell, Real Clear Politics, 5-6-21, "Johns Hopkins, Slave Owner? Not So Fast": https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/05/06/johns_hopkins_slave_owner_not_so_fast.html#!

Johnathan Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 6-3-21, "'Jumping the Gun' on Johns Hopkins? Researchers Say There's No Evidence University Founder Owned Enslaved People": https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-prem-md-johns-hopkins-census-20210603-4cp2v4yewveyrci26umuzt4eka-story.html?outputType=amp 

Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 6-3-21, "Hopkins Declared That Its Founder Enslaved People. It Might Not Be True. Now What?": https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0604-hopkins-report-20210603-v7vspf6j3bgstbkxsy5rw42fdy-story.html 

WJZ-TV news report by Stetson Miller (video), 6-3-21, "Researchers Say There Is No Proof That Johns Hopkins Owned Slaves": https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/06/03/researchers-say-there-is-no-proof-that-johns-hopkins-owned-slaves/ 

Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 6-5-21, "Johns Hopkins Enslaved People. Or Did He? Some Scholars Question the University’s Recent Claims": https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/05/john-hopkins-slavery-founder-inquiry/ 

Twitter, Washington Post, 6-5-21: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1401298206445744128   

Ishan Kalburge, JHU Newsletter, 6-29-21, "New Research Challenges University Namesake's Ties To Slavery": https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/06/new-research-challenges-university-namesakes-ties-to-slavery

Johnathan Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 4-28-22, "Johns Hopkins University Revises Language About Founder's Ties to Slavery": https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-hopkins-as-slaveowner-20220428-5qg2xj2nknei3oue2juveqy7zm-story.html

Photo in Baltimore Sun on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Johns Hopkins' death, 12/25/2023: digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=2df11085-80ac-40e0-844e-89018474da5b  

John Ciekot leads a tour of Clifton Mansion as part of the 2023 Christmas Eve commemoration of Johns Hopkins' legacy. Photo source: Baltimore Sun.