The Institute has initiated a program of community education. The aim is to develop both scholarly resources that support theoretical and empirical work related to the building and renewal of civil society, and tools for education in public and oral history.
The current publications program is focussed on a set of reading lists, a book review program, and a series of working papers.
In terms of public history, we have begun work on a set of weekly historical notes.
“I have often thought how ridiculous it was that a nation, whose ancestors knew so well the value of liberty as to have maintained it with the last drop of their blood should be instrumental in enslaving a race of people whose only crime, if I judge right, is that the same Being which created them, for reasons beyond the capacity of mortals, made them black instead of white ...” Richard John Uniacke (1753-1830)
