Since 2011, this project is revisiting the slaveholder rebellion that led to the American Civil War while encouraging a revitalized interest through multiple platform single-storytelling.

By producing content that develops across multiple forms of media, we can explore both history and the future of how we will collectively share, gather, and publish memories and historical lessons across platforms.

More specifically, The 150 Project is an experiment launched on April 11, 2011, to mark the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter. This trip was the catalyst to mark similar grim historical timelines with trips to battlefields on the same day and hour, following in the footsteps of those who fought, speaking with those who now visit. As the project progressed, the idea to form a new, longer-range, more inclusive goal of making this a space to share stories that parallel the history of the American Civil War.

This project is not to glorify but to challenge. With these curated, collected, and crowdsourced stories, the project hopes, through personal and outside funding, to turn those histories into a living, breathing piece of collective journalism from battlefields to the profound and longer-lasting scar of slavery, the reconstruction era, and the fight for civil rights still being waged today.

Thank you,

Nathan W. Armes, founder and project director.