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Latest Articles: The Public HistorianTWOProject MUSE®The Public Historian1533-85760272-3433Latest articles in The Public Historian. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Editor's Corner: Reflecting on the Semiquincentennial
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983059
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This year marks the Semiquincentennial of signing of the Declaration of Independence, an event that announced a new nation in formation and triggered global, far-reaching consequences. Since 2021, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the National Park Service (NPS) have co-sponsored plenaries at the NCPH annual meeting to discuss the long and complex legacy of the quest for independence. These offered multiple perspectives to enrich and broaden interpretation of the 250th, especially for those (within and outside of NPS) engaged in programming anticipating the commemoration. Additionally, edited versions of the plenaries, conceived as a series titled "Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallEditor's Corner: Reflecting on the Semiquincentennial2026-02-19text/htmlen-USEditor's Corner: Reflecting on the Semiquincentennial2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®76862026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19"Play the Long Game": Public Historians' Approach the Semiquincentennial and Beyond
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983060
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For the last five years, I have had the honor of serving as series editor for "Considering the Revolution," a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH). Each year, a convenor has brought together a panel of scholars and practitioners to discuss themes related to the American Revolution for the purpose of helping NPS interpreters and other practitioners prepare for the upcoming Semiquincentennial. The topics of panels, which were also written up by panel conveners into articles published in The Public Historian, have been wide-ranging. Panels from "Indigenous Histories and Memory in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Indigenous Plateau" (2021) to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmall"Play the Long Game": Public Historians' Approach the Semiquincentennial and Beyond2026-02-19text/htmlen-US"Play the Long Game": Public Historians' Approach the Semiquincentennial and Beyond2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®757972026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19"Sometimes a Kitchen, Sometimes a Zoom Call": Experiences of Recording Oral Histories Online
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983061
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"Home is a constant struggle. Home is sometimes a kitchen, sometimes a Zoom call, where for moments I am not an outsider."Like many organizations across the globe responding to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, community archives faced a major challenge in the spring of 2020: move inperson programming online or stop it entirely? Two community archives—After Violence Project (AVP) and South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)—were well-poised to respond to the challenges of the pandemic shutdown.2 Both organizations had already developed a track record of successful online programming due to the dispersed nature of their communities. SAADA had a peer-to-peer oral history program, in which community members are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmall"Sometimes a Kitchen, Sometimes a Zoom Call": Experiences of Recording Oral Histories Online2026-02-19text/htmlen-US"Sometimes a Kitchen, Sometimes a Zoom Call": Experiences of Recording Oral Histories Online2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®1579412026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Taking History Beyond the Classroom: Embedding Public History and Shared Authority into the University Degree
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983062
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When I commenced my undergraduate history studies, I prepared to encounter foreign perspectives, challenging ideologies and elusive primary sources. What I failed to predict was that I would find myself bonding with retirees, leading tours of a historic homestead, tasting wine and debating where to put an early twentieth-century stomping vat as part of my degree. I had found myself in this unique position because I'd enrolled in History Beyond the Classroom: one of the capstone units the University of Sydney offers to all undergraduate History majors. The unit asks students—cloistered within the university's ivory tower as we are—to look outwards, applying what we had learned in our history degrees in service of a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallTaking History Beyond the Classroom: Embedding Public History and Shared Authority into the University Degree2026-02-19text/htmlen-USTaking History Beyond the Classroom: Embedding Public History and Shared Authority into the University Degree2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®1122062026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Campus-Based Digital Approaches to Making Visible the Hispanic Past and Latino Present of North Florida
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983063
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Before the large-scale campaigns currently being waged nationwide against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in government, education, and the private sector, Florida served as a laboratory for such measures. In recent years, legislation and executive actions in Florida sought to dismantle curricula, curtail extracurricular activities, and remake institutions. As the repercussions of these efforts play out in the state, a climate of ambiguity and fear has become normalized, with university faculty and administrators self-censoring to avoid reprisal. The resulting situation impacts not only educators but also students, particularly those who identify with marginalized groups, and especially at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallCampus-Based Digital Approaches to Making Visible the Hispanic Past and Latino Present of North Florida2026-02-19text/htmlen-USCampus-Based Digital Approaches to Making Visible the Hispanic Past and Latino Present of North Florida2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®1525682026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Museum of Making in Derby, UK (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983064
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The building that houses the Museum of Making in England's East Midlands region, now part of the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site, is itself a historic monument to making. Opened in 1721 as Lombe's Silk Mill, the building may have been the world's first fully mechanized factory. By using the rapid current of the adjacent River Derwent to power the silk-making machines inside, this factory helped to spark a worldwide Industrial Revolution. When silk-making ended there in 1906, the building served several other purposes, such as housing the Derby Industrial Museum from 1974 to 2011. With support from a range of foundations, charitable trusts, and businesses, the newly created Museum of Making opened
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallMuseum of Making in Derby, UK (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USMuseum of Making in Derby, UK (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®98952026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619–1865. Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983065
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In the middle of the twentieth century, T. O. Madden discovered a trunk belonging to his great-great-grandmother, Sarah Madden, the daughter of a free, Irish white woman and an enslaved Black man. Inside was an astounding trove of family history documents and, most importantly, the papers that Sarah and her family used to build a life as free people in a slave society. For a century, these fragile documents were all that kept generations of Maddens from enslavement. These papers and other family heirlooms are just one of the fascinating stories presented in Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619–1865. Un/Bound successfully weaves together community memory and legal history to create a compelling account of free
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallUn/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619–1865. Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USUn/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619–1865. Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®100112026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19The Cost of Inheritance on America ReFramed by Yoruba Richen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983066
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Great films should make you think; great documentaries require you to think. The Cost of Inheritance, a documentary that aired as part of the PBS series America ReFramed, traces the enduring impact of slavery and systemic racism on the racial wealth gap in the United States. Directed by Yoruba Richen, the film examines the legacy of these inequities and explores modern reparations efforts. This film takes its place in a long line of documentaries regarding African Americans and reparations, such as Stubborn as a Mule (2010).The accessible film combines personal narratives, archival footage, expert interviews, and visual illustrations in a storytelling tour de force. Rather than fixating on legal or academic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallThe Cost of Inheritance on America ReFramed by Yoruba Richen (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USThe Cost of Inheritance on America ReFramed by Yoruba Richen (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®97592026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice ed. by Georgina Laragy et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983067
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The book Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice offers a powerful and timely reflection on the radical, transnational, and dialogic nature of public history as both a scholarly field and an activist practice. Moving beyond Anglocentric and Eurocentric paradigms, the volume foregrounds case studies from Iran, Chile, Ireland, Argentina, Canada, and the United Kingdom to illustrate how public history operates as a space of resistance, exchange, and collaboration. The editors set the tone from the outset by emphasizing the field's subversive potential and its capacity to question and unsettle (if not fully dismantle) the epistemic hierarchies that continue to shape historical knowledge.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallPublic History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice ed. by Georgina Laragy et al. (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USPublic History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice ed. by Georgina Laragy et al. (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®100212026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Museums and Societal Collapse: Museums as Lifeboat by Robert R. Janes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983068
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Robert R. Janes is an esteemed museologist and public historian with a long career in museums marked by his visionary approach to cultural institutions. His scholarship consistently explores the role of museums in society, and he often proposes interdisciplinary approaches to current challenges facing museums. His latest book, Museums and Societal Collapse, continues this trajectory. In this work, Janes focuses on the important role museums play in preventing a total collapse of society brought on by a litany of stressors plaguing our civilization, such as increased scarcity of fossil fuels, climate change, and instabilities in global economies. His central conclusion is unequivocal: the actions taken thus far to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallMuseums and Societal Collapse: Museums as Lifeboat by Robert R. Janes (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USMuseums and Societal Collapse: Museums as Lifeboat by Robert R. Janes (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®90222026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy by Erica Avrami (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983069
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Erica Avrami's Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy synthesizes decades of reckoning with the historic preservation field's internal contradictions, biases, and exclusions. The book precipitates a useful understanding of the problems and limitations of preservation as a field for public historians who have understood historic preservation as a neutral partner that inscribes and conserves the built past. However, for many public historians and preservationists sitting at the front row of debates about the field's future, much of the content may seem quite self-evident. Nevertheless, Avrami has created a stirring short volume which articulates a model for diagnosing the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallSecond-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy by Erica Avrami (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USSecond-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy by Erica Avrami (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®87862026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Benefactors of Posterity: The Founding Era of the Filson Historical Society 1884–1899 by Daniel Gifford (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983070
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How do historical organizations align their past and future? In Benefactors of Prosperity, Daniel Gifford tackles that question in regards to the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Framed around the emergence of museums and professional historical associations during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Gifford tracks how the founders of the Filson Club (later renamed the Filson Historical Society) established an organization to share local history and benefit Louisvillians. Benefactors of Prosperity is an engaging look at the organization's early history as well as a statement about the Filson's future. Penned for the Filson Historical Society's 140th anniversary, a few important caveats are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallBenefactors of Posterity: The Founding Era of the Filson Historical Society 1884–1899 by Daniel Gifford (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USBenefactors of Posterity: The Founding Era of the Filson Historical Society 1884–1899 by Daniel Gifford (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®84002026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park by Christopher Barns (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983071
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Throughout the 110-year history of the National Park Service, few topics have been as contested as the balance between protecting and preserving the natural beauty of our landscapes versus ensuring public access and enjoyment. Christopher Barns's Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park explores how this conflict played out in the US Southwest. While the Casa Grande Ruins were placed under federal protection in 1892, Mesa Verde stands as the first National Park specifically established to preserve Indigenous culture. His narrative details how bureaucratic and administrative decisions have managed to keep the Mesa Verde backcountry closed to the public to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallMesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park by Christopher Barns (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USMesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park by Christopher Barns (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®143272026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past by Tore C. Olsson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983072
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In the 2010s, software developer Rockstar Games released a pair of video games steeped in American history. Red Dead Redemption (2010) and Red Dead Redemption II (2018) have become some of the bestselling and most popular games of all time, spawning an immense fanbase and drawing attention to portrayals of American history in digital media. They have also invited public historians and digital humanists to unpack their layers, none more successfully than scholar Tore C. Olsson, who taught a college course on American history using these games as a starting point. In Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, Olsson, a professional historian and avid enjoyer of the series, foregrounds
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallRed Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past by Tore C. Olsson (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USRed Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past by Tore C. Olsson (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®92952026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds by Adam Rosenblatt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983074
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Adam Rosenblatt's Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds exposes the hidden histories in African American cemeteries and the volunteers who revive them. His analysis of the cemeteries showcases the origins of segregated burials and thus highlights how and where segregation and structural violence survive in our modern era. It also surveys the relationships between individuals and cemeteries with a concentration on the reclamation efforts in the marginalized spaces of Geer Cemetery in Durham, North Carolina, the East End Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, and Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. He documents how reclaiming the past at these cemeteries preserves a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallCemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds by Adam Rosenblatt (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USCemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds by Adam Rosenblatt (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®78452026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680–1807 by Jane Webster (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983075
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Jane Webster's remarkably comprehensive but accessible book, Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680–1807, is an excellent resource for anyone determined to either gain a basic knowledge of the functioning of the transatlantic slave trade or to dig deeper into the complexities of relationships within it. While the author provides some field-specific theoretical discussions and introduces debates surrounding those theories, Webster never drifts far from a straightforward presentation of the day-to-day activities involved in developing and supporting the British slave trade. Relying on the tools of the historical archaeologist, with a focus on the presentation and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallMaterializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680–1807 by Jane Webster (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USMaterializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680–1807 by Jane Webster (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®81852026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape by Megan M. Bailey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983076
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I will never forget the moment I fully grasped that a plantation was nothing short of a physical and mental prison. An incident on the grounds at the historic site where I worked found me circling the second-floor rooms of the plantation house. Glancing out of windows, making my way through each room, I surveilled the entire landscape within seconds. It dawned on me—this wasn't a house: it was a watch tower. The plantation was a physical and psychological prison of fear for the enslaved and enslaver alike. Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape vividly reminded me of that experience.Megan Bailey's book combines methodologies from archaeology, architecture, history, psychology
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallMemory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape by Megan M. Bailey (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USMemory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape by Megan M. Bailey (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®90922026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole by Kristalyn Marie Shefveland (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983077
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When European settlers first explored the land along Florida's Atlantic coast, they viewed it as untamable, difficult to navigate, and filled with hostile Indigenous people. After the Civil War, Northern settlers again sought to profit from this area, pitching fictional narratives of a new, empty Eden ripe with lush fauna, healing properties, and lucrative potential. Their savvy marketing worked, and these new mythologies—along with their massive construction projects—destroyed Aís and Seminole histories of the land. In her new book, Kristalyn Marie Shefveland explores how these settler colonizers created the mythology of Old Florida in Vero Beach, seeking to profit off the promise of what the land could be, while
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallSelling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole by Kristalyn Marie Shefveland (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USSelling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole by Kristalyn Marie Shefveland (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®86012026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19There's Lots to See in Georgia: A Guide to Georgia's State Historic Sites ed. by Jennifer W. Dickey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983078
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Robert Weyeneth, former president of the National Council on Public History, would say to his students, "A good public historian can drop her bucket anywhere and find an interesting topic to explore." Jennifer Dickey has certainly proven that maxim in her latest work, There's Lots to See in Georgia: A Guide to Georgia's State Historic Sites. The book started as a quest for Dickey and her mother to visit all sixteen state-owned historic sites in Georgia in 2015. Although her mother passed away before the visits were completed, Dickey decided to continue the excursions and began research for this book after 2020. She is the editor of the volume and author of many chapters. She also coauthored the other chapters
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallThere's Lots to See in Georgia: A Guide to Georgia's State Historic Sites ed. by Jennifer W. Dickey (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USThere's Lots to See in Georgia: A Guide to Georgia's State Historic Sites ed. by Jennifer W. Dickey (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®90472026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983079
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Shae Smith Cox's first book from her dissertation research, The Fabric of Civil War Society, offers a creative exploration of the American Civil War period, shedding light on the complicated social, cultural, and material aspects that shaped the experiences of both soldiers and civilians. By analyzing the artifacts and social practices of the time, Cox presents a compelling argument that the Civil War was not only a military and political event but also a profound transformation of American society, one that reshaped social identities, relationships, and culture in lasting ways. For example, uniforms became markers of identity, with their color and fabric often serving as signals of loyalty or allegiance. This was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallThe Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USThe Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939 by Shae Smith Cox (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®78442026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries ed. by Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983080
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Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries is a pioneering volume of interdisciplinary essays examining the history of racial segregation in southern cemeteries from the antebellum period to the twenty-first century. This volume builds on scholarship that centers cemeteries as important sites of memory that crystallize social and cultural ideas about race, gender, and class. By positioning the cemetery as a rhetorical space, the authors illuminate the active relationship between the dead and the living, who reckon with past constructions of racial and gendered hierarchies of exclusion and belonging embedded in cemeteries' physical landscapes. In this anthology, the living are Black southerners
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/763/image/coversmallGrave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries ed. by Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle (review)2026-02-19text/htmlen-USGrave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries ed. by Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle (review)2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®95542026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19