Cynthia Greenlee

Cynthia Greenlee is a historian, James Beard Foundation Award-winning writer, and senior editor at The Counter. She’s also the co-editor of The Echoing Ida Collection.

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  1. A Priceless Archive of Ordinary Life

    To preserve Black history, a 19th-century Philadelphian filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials. But now underfunding and physical decay are putting archives like this one at risk.

    Scrapbooking items
    Lenard Smith for the Atlantic