AHA member Maureen Elgersman Lee (Coll. of William & Mary) was featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post for her work on the Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest known building in the US where enslaved and free Black children were formally educated. “The Bray School is happening around the same time that the fundamental ideas of American identity are being shaped and articulated,” Elgersman Lee told the Post. “The existence of the school tells us that African Americans were a part of the fabric of Williamsburg despite the desire to not see them.”
