Archival photograph of Black women and men sorting tobacco leaves at long wooden tables in a brick factory

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Who Built America’s Digital Odyssey

2025 — Documentary — Director, Producer & Editor

The American Social History Project has been innovating the field of social history for over 40 years. In this retrospective documentary, we document our own story by speaking to the people who have worked on the expansive ‘Who Built America?’ curriculum and taught us new ways to examine historical teaching.

Year: 2025
Format: Documentary
Role: Director, Producer & Editor
Production: American Social History Productions

Title card reading: Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914

A historian speaking on camera in an office, seated in front of an orange ASHP at 35 timeline poster

Archival photograph of a man leaning over a desk, retouching artwork with a fine brush

A frame from the Who Built America? CD-ROM: a cut-out archival portrait of a woman over a band of crumpled paper, beside a grandfather clock

A charcoal drawing of three men, their first names hand-lettered beneath them

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