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Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers
Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
Excerpt from the article: "The William & Mary was the second university in the U.S. after Brown University to establish a funded, institutional examination of its dark history of complicity with slavery and Jim Crow segregation. After resolutions from the Student Assembly and Faculty Assembly, the Board of Visitors in 2009 established the Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, named after Lemon, a man enslaved by the College..."
Writing At The Bray School: Part 2, Terry L. Meyers
Writing At The Bray School: Part 2, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
Excerpt: "In the last several years the contested question of whether Mrs. Wager taught writing at the Williamsburg Bray School has come up anew in several venues. In this follow-up to my earlier piece, “Writing at the Bray School,” I examine these recent developments..."
Asking For Forgiveness: Negotiating The Creation Of Memory Through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Asking For Forgiveness: Negotiating The Creation Of Memory Through Public Memorialization, Alyssa Castronuovo
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The practice of spatializing culture, or “examining space through theories of embodiment, discourse translocality, and effect,” localizes the global and separates hegemonic narratives of space from how it is actually utilized by the people who interact with it. Setha Low argues that this perspective is especially useful to the anthropologist committed to challenging the discipline’s historically eurocentric approach to studying culture. She writes that a spatial focus “[draws] on the strengths of studying people in situ, producing rich and nuanced sociospatial understandings.” This project began with an interest in theorists such as Edward Soja, Michel de Certeau, and Henri Lefebvre, …
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Scholars of the American South generally end their studies of Confederate memorization just before World War 1. Because of a decline in the number of physical monuments and memorials to the Confederacy dedicated in the years immediately following the war, scholars appear to regard the interwar era as a period separate from the Lost Cause movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, to fully understand the complexity of developing Southern identities in the modern age, it is essential to expand traditional definitions of Confederate memorialization and the time period in which it is studied. This paper explores …
Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers
Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers
Arts & Sciences Articles
"I’ve become interested recently in whether writing was taught to the pupils in the Williamsburg Bray School. I had assumed all along that it was, and that the discovery of 40 some slate pencils at the Bray School Dig was confirmation of that.
I’d not been alone in my assumption about the teaching of writing, for the great majority of those interested in the Bray School have affirmed that the curriculum included writing..."
The Land Remembers: The Construction Of Movement Possibility Among Woodland Period Communities Of The Virginia Peninsula, Josue Roberto Nieves
The Land Remembers: The Construction Of Movement Possibility Among Woodland Period Communities Of The Virginia Peninsula, Josue Roberto Nieves
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Grandfathers At War: Practical Politics Of Identity At Delaware Town, Melissa Ann Eaton
Grandfathers At War: Practical Politics Of Identity At Delaware Town, Melissa Ann Eaton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This research explores the meaning, construction, representation, and function of Delaware ethnic identity during the 1820s. In 1821, nearly 2,000 Delawares (self-referentially called Lenape) crossed the Mississippi River and settled in Southwest Missouri as a condition of the Treaty of St. Marys. This dissertation argues that effects of this emigration sparked a vigorous reconsideration of ethnic identity and cultural representation. Traditionally, other Eastern Algonquian groups recognized Delawares by the metaphoric kinship status of "grandfather." Both European and Colonial governments also established Delawares as preferential clients and trading partners. Yet, as the Delawares immigrated into a new "western" Superintendency of Indian …
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation At The End Of The Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Lewis Burwell II designed Fairfield plantation in Gloucester County to be the most sophisticated and successful architectural and agricultural effort in late seventeenth-century Virginia. He envisioned a physical framework with the intent to control the world around him so that he might profit from growing tobacco, while raising his family's status to the highest in the colony through the display of wealth and knowledge and the enslavement of both Africans and the natural surroundings. The landscape he envisioned contrasted with those of the enslaved Africans he purchased and put to work in the fields and buildings surrounding his '1694 brick …
Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology Of A Civilian Community In Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler
Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology Of A Civilian Community In Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Warfare and conflict are familiar topics to anthropologists, but it is only recently that anthropological archaeologists moved to create a discrete specialization, known as Conflict Archaeology. Practitioners now actively pursue research in a number of different areas, such as battlefields, fortifications, and troop encampments. These advances throw into sharp relief areas that need greater focus. This dissertation addresses one of these shortcomings by focusing on the home front by studying Dooley's Ferry, a hamlet that once lay on the banks of the Red River, in southwest Arkansas. Before the American Civil War, it was a node in the commodity chains …
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology Of A Chesapeake Neighborhood Through Enslavement And Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is a community-level analysis of an African American plantation neighborhood grounded in archaeological excavations at the Quarterpath Site (44WB0124), an antebellum quartering complex and post-Emancipation tenant residence occupied circa 1840s-1905 in lower James City County, Virginia. It asserts that the Quarterpath domestic quarter was a gathering place, a locus of social interaction in a vibrant and long established Chesapeake plantation neighborhood complex.;By the antebellum period, as marriage "abroad," or off-plantation, became the most common form of long term social union within plantation communities, enslaved social and kin ties in the Chesapeake region were typically geographically dispersed, enjoining multiple …
I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett
I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Shellfishing, Ceramics, And Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics From The Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich
Shellfishing, Ceramics, And Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics From The Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence Within The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Berek J. Dore
Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence Within The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Berek J. Dore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Diasporic World Of The Great Dismal Swamp, 1630 -1860, Daniel O. Sayers
The Diasporic World Of The Great Dismal Swamp, 1630 -1860, Daniel O. Sayers
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia stood as a remote landscape in the heart of the Tidewater throughout the historical period. Between ca. 1630 and 1860, thousands of Diasporans took advantage of the remoteness of the swamp in various ways and formed a variety of communities. Within these Diasporic communities were Native Americans, maroons, and enslaved canal company workers who joined or formed communities based on individual and specific reasons for choosing to permanently inhabit the swamp. Diasporic communities emerged on islands in the swamp and the relative locations of these landforms had significant impacts on what …
Chickahominy Stylistic Expression: Preliminary Motif Analysis Of Ceramics Of The Chickahominy River Drainage, Jennifer Honora Ogborne
Chickahominy Stylistic Expression: Preliminary Motif Analysis Of Ceramics Of The Chickahominy River Drainage, Jennifer Honora Ogborne
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Archaeology Of Opequon Creek: Religion, Ethnicity, And Identity In The Material Culture Of An Eighteenth-Century Immigrant Community, Frederick County, Virginia, Ann Schaefer Persson
The Archaeology Of Opequon Creek: Religion, Ethnicity, And Identity In The Material Culture Of An Eighteenth-Century Immigrant Community, Frederick County, Virginia, Ann Schaefer Persson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
'Post-Humously Hot': Bill Traylor's Life And Art, Colleen Doyle Worrell
'Post-Humously Hot': Bill Traylor's Life And Art, Colleen Doyle Worrell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Archaeological Perspective On The African-American Slave Diet At Mount Vernon's House For Families, Stephen Charles Atkins
An Archaeological Perspective On The African-American Slave Diet At Mount Vernon's House For Families, Stephen Charles Atkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Cowrie Shell In Virginia: A Critical Evaluation Of Potential Archaeological Significance, Laurie Elisabeth Pearce
The Cowrie Shell In Virginia: A Critical Evaluation Of Potential Archaeological Significance, Laurie Elisabeth Pearce
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder
Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Introduction To Artist A B Jackson And His Portrayal Of The American Neighborhood, Cindy R. Shepard
An Introduction To Artist A B Jackson And His Portrayal Of The American Neighborhood, Cindy R. Shepard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.