Reexamining Hopkins History

Spotlighted Initiative

The reexamining history initiative seeks to explore and publicly present archival material that helps to inform the story of our founder, Johns Hopkins and his family, including information about their relationship to the institution of slavery. As America’s first research university, Johns Hopkins is committed to the pursuit of knowledge and to using the tools of academic research to understand and examine our past.

We are in the midst of a multi-year, university-wide process of discovery and investigation about our university’s history. We hope that others – our students, faculty, and staff as well as our neighbors in Baltimore – will help contribute to this work of gathering and sharing documents and interpreting them.

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