SeeWorthy: Alexandria Archaeology's Big Finds
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Surprises lay underneath the Alexandria waterfront.
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Alexandria Canal: A Bet on TRADE and PROSPERITY
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From an aqueduct across the Potomac, 7 miles to Alexandria—but someone had to pay for it all.
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Black History Month Beginnings
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Imagining the creativity and scholarship coming out of Carter Woodson’s “home office” on Ninth Street NW in Washington, DC.
Read More"They Called Us Girls": A Conversation with Author Kathleen Stone
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In which Kathleen Stone, author of the forthcoming They Called Us Girls, talks about how she came to the idea for her group biography and how she carried it off.
Read MoreA Gravestone Set Right: Julia Wilbur in the Avon, New York, Cemetery
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Julia Wilbur’s final resting spot in Avon, New York, is definitely more restful now.
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs in New York State
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Two short articles summarize the roughly two decades that Harriet Jacobs lived in New York State—New York City and Rochester (part 1) and Cornwall (part 2).
Read MoreWriting a Book Review of The Last King of America
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With apologies to those who never write in books, how and why I reviewed The Last King in America for Washington Independent Review of Books.
Read MoreMore on Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial
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A bit more background about a recent article I published on a civil rights action—in 1864 Alexandria, Virginia.
Read MoreThe Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
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Lesson of the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay—ships built in a hurry are not a great idea
Read MoreAlexandria African American Heritage Park
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Field trip: Alexandria African American Heritage Park
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs and Imogen Willis Eddy: Surprise Discoveries All Around
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After (or before) you’ve read my article in the Cambridge Day about Harriet Jacobs and Imogen Willis Eddy, here are a few bits that could not make it in the original article.
Read MoreNapoleon Bonaparte Marshall and William Taylor Burwell Williams: African American Educators and Harvard Graduates (Class of 1897)
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In their own words: Two Black alumni from the Harvard College class of 1897.
Read MoreFrederick Douglass and the Fifth of July
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What to the slave is the Fourth of July? asked Frederick Douglass to a Rochester audience. What indeed?
Read MoreAnne Lynch's New York City Literary Salon
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This woman ran one of the most sought-after literary salons in mid-19th century New York City.
Read MoreFrom the Archive: My Own!
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For someone who loves reading old letters in archives, getting back letters that I wrote from 1974 to 1996 was….weird.
Read MoreNortheast North Carolina Underground Railroad: Sea, Swamp, Solidarity
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Consider the challenge of an escape from slavery via the watery depths.
Read MoreAugusta Browne, 19th-century American female composer
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Have you heard of 19th century composer Augusta Browne? Biographer Bonny Miller sheds some light, and sound, on what Browne achieved amidst a lot of constraints.
Read MoreFreedmen's Bureau in Washington: Need Help? Move.
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The post-Civil War work of the Freedmen’s Bureau was curtailed from the start.
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