On-line Academy concept and content produced by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture.

Collectors

• Tina Clarke
  Liaison to the African American community for Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Douglass Duncan
  
  
• Jerome Gray
  Collector
  
  
• Philip J. Merrill
  Owner, Nanny Jack & Co., Inc. and appraiser, PBS Antiques Roadshow http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/series/appraisers/l-r/merrill.html
  http://www.nannyjack.com/
  
  
• Honorable Rohulamin Quander
  Judge, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Office of Adjudication
  President Quander Historical Society
  
  
• Roberta Quander
  Family Historian

Scholars

• Carroll Gibbs
  Historian
  
  
• John Hope Franklin
  Professor Emeritus Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  http://www.duke.edu/web/jhfcenter/
  http://www.ncwriters.org/jfrankli.htm
  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/franklin/cv.html
  
  
• Gladys-Marie Fry
  Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
  http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/ideasv52/fry.htm

Preservers

• Julia M. Brennan
  Owner, Textile Conservation Services
  http://www.caringfortextiles.com
  
  
• Janice Stagnitto-Ellis
  President and CEO of Quarto Conservation of Books and Paper, Inc.
  1528 Grace Church Road
  Silver Spring, MD 20910
  (301) 585-2521

Monticello Segment

• Dianne Swann-Wright
  Director of African American and Special Programs
  Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
  Post Office Box 217
  Charlottesville, VA 22902
  http://www.monticello.org/

Maisha Washington Segment

• Maisha Washington
  Administrator of Education, Banneker-Douglass Museum,
  Annapolis, Maryland
  
  
• Stanton Community Center
  
  
• Annapolis Parks and Recreation http://www.ci.annapolis.md.us/citizens/depts/recr/recr.html
  
  
• Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
  Maryland Historic Trust
  http://www.dhcd.state.md.us/
  http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/
  http://www.kuntakinte.org
  
  
• John Whittington Franklin
  Chairman of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture and Program Manager and Curator at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  
  
• Kirby McKinney
  Executive Director
  Stanton Community Center
  http://www.ci.annapolis.md.us/citizens/depts/recr/stanton.html

  Special thanks to interns:
  

  • Pollyanna Williams (Howard University)
  • Joey Wise (University of Maryland Eastern Shore)
  • Lionel Jennings (Morgan State University)
  • Ashley Cooper (Laurel High School, Laurel, Maryland)


Additional thanks:

• LaMarr Funn
  Educational Specialist
  Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
  Maryland Historic Trust

Mark Leone Segment

• Mark P. Leone
  Professor or Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
  http://www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/
  http://www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/masters/faculty/leone.htm
  

• Anna B. Hill
  Assistant Laboratory Director
  Department of Anthropology
  University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
  
  
• Thomas W. Cuddy, PhD
  Curator of Archaeology
  Historic Annapolis Foundation
  http://www.annapolis.org/
  
  
• Charles Carroll House, Inc. and St. Mary's Parish
  Annapolis, MD
  http://www.stmaryschurch.org/
  
  

John Vlach Segment

• Lynne Dakin Hastings
  Curator and Chief, Museum Services
  Hampton National Historic Site
  
  
• Debra Sturm
  Chief, Visitor Services
  Hampton National Historic Site
  
  
• Laurie Coughlan
  Site Superintendent
  Hampton National Historic Site
  
  
• Staff of Hampton National Historic Site
  http://www.nps.gov/hamp/
  http://www.nps.gov/hamp/home.htm
  
  
• National Park Service, US Department of the Interior
  http://www.nps.gov/
  
  
• John Michael Vlach, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
  http://www.gwu.edu/~amst/community/faculty/core/vlach.htm
  http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/
  http://www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/chapters/vlach_planters.html
  

Web Design

• Henninger Productions and IDI Multimedia
  http://www.idimultimedia.com/

Acknowledgements Page

• New Tilt
  http://www.newtilt.com/

Financial Support

• The Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee
  http://www.si.edu/giving/od/women.htm

Multimedia Production

Archaeology in Annapolis, Mark Leone, John Vlach, and Maisha Washington segments

• Hillmann and Carr, Inc.
  http://www.hillmanncarr.com/

Preservers, Collectors, and remaining Scholars segments

• Henninger Media Services
  http://www.henninger.com/