American
Experience ANNOUNCES
THE ABOLITIONIST MAP OF
AMERICA
Interactive Map Explores the Legacy
of the Anti-Slavery Movement
Through Its Impact on Local
Communities
BOSTON , MA - DATE, 2012 - AMERICAN EXPERIENCE has announced the launch of The
Abolitionist Map of America, an interactive website that explores
events, characters and locations connected to the anti-slavery movement, one of
the most important civil rights crusade in American history. The map engages
communities around their local history, connecting the stories told in The Abolitionists, premiering Tuesdays,
January 8-22, 2013 on PBS, to real geographic locations, bringing events from
the past to life and integrating them into present-day American cities.
American Experience is
working with hundreds of museums, libraries, archives and public television
stations to populate the map with geo-tagged historical photos and documents, as
well as more than 30 video clips from The
Abolitionists. The public is invited to upload their own content with
the goal of creating a map that reflects the shared history of the movement and
its indelible mark on local communities and the nation.
Developed with innovative technology from public media
history platform Historypin, the Abolitionist Map of America allows users to
superimpose an archival image of a specific location over the present-day street
view of that same location, showing how a significant place has changed over
time. Walking tours of Boston , Charleston , Cincinnati and Philadelphia can be
experienced by users virtually on the Web or spontaneously as they walk through
the city. The Abolitionist Map of America will be available as an iPhone app in
December 2012.
View The Abolitionist Map of America
here:
Institutional partners already collaborating on the Map
include the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Avery Research Center
for African American History and Culture (Charleston, SC), Boston Public
Library, Cincinnati Public Library, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum, Library Company in Philadelphia Program in African American History,
Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives and Records Administration,
National Museum of African American History and Culture, the New Bedford Historical Society, and the University
of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
About American
Experience
Television’s most-watched history series, American Experience has been hailed as
“peerless” (Wall Street Journal),
“the most consistently enriching program on television” (Chicago Tribune), and “a beacon of
intelligence and purpose” (Houston
Chronicle). On air and online, the series brings to life the
incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America ’s past and
present. Acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, American Experience documentaries have
been honored with every major broadcast award, including 30 Emmy Awards, four
duPont-Columbia Awards, and 16 George Foster Peabody Awards, one most recently
for the series represented by Freedom
Riders, Triangle Fire,
and Stonewall
Uprising.
Exclusive corporate
funding for American Experience is
provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance. Major funding provided by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation. Major funding for The
Abolitionists provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities:
Exploring the Human Endeavor. Additional Funding provided by the Arthur Vining
Davis Foundations: Dedicated to Strengthening
America's Future Through Education; the Yawkey Foundations; Members of the
Documentary Investment Group, The Gretchen Stone Cook Charitable Foundation,
Robert & Marjie Kargman and Gloria & Burton Rose; and by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and Public Television Viewers. American Experience is produced for PBS
by WGBH Boston.
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