Category Archives: Historian in the World
Carter’s Grove is For Sale
Does anyone want to give me $15 million? All I found under the couch this morning was a dime. I ask because Carter’s Grove, a plantation built on the James River just below Williamsburg in early 1750s for the descendants of Robert … Continue reading
Posted in Historian in the World, The Aspiring Handyman
Tagged estates, Landscape of Slavery, real estate, slavery, Virginia
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Books Reunited
Back in January, I had the opportunity to tour the gorgeous new Fred W. Smith National Library at Mt. Vernon, as part of a reception that they hosted for SHEAR. It’s truly a gorgeous facility, with lots of resources to … Continue reading
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The Virtue of Deadlines
Today I discovered another virtue of the Faculty Initiative on Digital Identity: it provides deadlines. This is a truth I have long understood about writing, about the academy, and about myself: it’s really hard to produce anything worthwhile without a … Continue reading
The Quotidianness of Digital Identity
This week I have been thinking about digital identity as a process, an insight that emerged from a serendipitous overlap between an email conversation with a friend and the the week’s readings for the UMW Domain of One’s Own Faculty … Continue reading
Midcentury Love
I have often argued that the square, blocky buildings of the 1940s-1970s that dominate American cityscapes don’t deserve all the hate that they get. A lot of them have very nice proportions, and I find their minimal adornment preferable to … Continue reading
Places I Have Lived, in 1941
Yesterday Kevin sent me a great site put together by Yale that has made available 170,000 photos taken by the Farm Security Administration between 1935 and 1943 to document the last years of the Depression and the early years of World … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Life, Historian in the World
Tagged 1941, Fredericksburg, History, Kevin, Links, Photos, Upstate
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