Don Carleton speaks with Daina Berry, chair of the Department of History at UT Austin. Her research and teaching—which focuses on the history of the enslaved—has utilized many of the Briscoe Center’s collections, in particular the Natchez Trace Collection, a which documents life in the Lower Mississippi River Valley from the 1760s to the 1920s. Dr. Berry was also the chief consultant for Teaching Texas Slavery, an educational K-12 resource that launched in 2019 and features items from the center’s collections.

This episode of American Rhapsody was mixed and mastered by Morgan Honaker.