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Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal
how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet
Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. This
volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college
founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained
by African American families, the college did not integrate its
student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process,
Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college "founder"
is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and
central place in the story of a single institution - one that
serves as a microcosm of the American South.
Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the
Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After
America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous
military and civilian roles-Red Cross nurses, sailors,
shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic gardeners. More
than 100,000 were drafted-more than 3600 lost their lives. Almost
every city and county lost men and women to the war. The author
details the state's manifold contributions to the war effort and
presents a study of monuments erected after the war.
Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal
how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet
Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. This
volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college
founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained
by African American families, the college did not integrate its
student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process,
Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college "founder"
is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and
central place in the story of a single institution - one that
serves as a microcosm of the American South.
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical
markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about
the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold
keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of
interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to
interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of
racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through
the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries
throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the
importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for
examining power relations, community formation, and historical
memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists,
and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial
segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about
how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and
reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a
learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work
of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to
their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for
both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the
novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries
for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic
landscape, and identity politics.
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical
markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about
the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold
keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of
interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to
interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of
racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through
the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries
throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the
importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for
examining power relations, community formation, and historical
memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists,
and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial
segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about
how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and
reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a
learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work
of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to
their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for
both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the
novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries
for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic
landscape, and identity politics.
Lynn Rainville's revised thesis uses micro-debris analyis' to
investigate aspects of domestic life in three Early Bronze Age
sites, two urban and one rural, in southeastern Turkey. More than
370 micro-debris samples (objects under 10 mm in size) taken from
these three sites, Titri Hoyuek, Kazane Hoyuek and Tilbes Hoyuek,
are analysed as Rainville tests the application of this approach
for revealing daily activities in urban settlements. What she
concludes is that studying large, macro finds and features is not
sufficient and it is only through recovering and analysing the
micro-archaeology, and studying it in tandem with the macro finds,
that we can begin to investigate the detailed, multiple, domestic
activities going on within urban sites.
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