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    • Facts on the Ground: Mapping Harlem’s History
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    • Mapping the Mundane: Visual Arguments about Harlem’s Past
    • Explore research projects

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Our research projects spread far and wide, from the study of thoroughbred horse-racing, to the rise of the use of rap in legal cases.

To find out more, and read all the information about our projects, please use the links below.

A screenshot of a Google map of Harlem

Facts on the Ground: Mapping Harlem’s History

Examining aspects of the material and cultural development of Harlem, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Lincoln Statue on Brazennose Street

Manchester’s ‘American connections’

Read about Manchester's American connections - a walking tour and public history project.

A screenshot of a Google map of Harlem

Mapping the Mundane: Visual Arguments about Harlem’s Past

Harlem, one of America's most iconic neighbourhoods, inspires scholarship that continues to make exciting discoveries about this neighbourhood’s past.

Black and white image of horse racing

A Kingdom For a Horse

Learn about The Racetrack in Nineteenth-Century American Culture research project. 

Graphic of camera at concert

Prosecuting Rap

Challenging the use of rap in the criminal justice system. 

Show Me the Money - Wall Street bulls

Show Me the Money

Find out more about the Show Me the Money exhibition.

Ashley Montagu portrait

Freud's 'Fruitful' Theories

Freud's 'Fruitful Theories', and the Place of Psychoanalysis in the American Human Sciences.

The Fifth Report - Documents from the American Civil War

Britain and the American Civil War

Read about A Case Study of the Union and Emancipation Society.

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