The Smithsonian Channel is airing their recent doc on the Great Dismal Swamp. Watch the trailer here: https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/escape-to-the-great-dismal-swamp/0/3456593
Home stretch- Road to ABD
Some may have noticed that I have not posted much since December and this is because I am working on several projects that span an array of disciplines. I take my comps in Fall 2018 which means making sure that my analysis of texts in my reading lists are settled and effective. Additionally I am … Continue reading Home stretch- Road to ABD
Douglas C. North’s Economic History of the United States-Notes
Douglas C. North’s The Economic Growth of the United States: 1790-1860 takes on the complex interpretive task of synthesizing historic economic data into an intelligible history of America’s economic growth during the period under investigation. The study “is based on the proposition that United States growth was the evolution of a market economy where the … Continue reading Douglas C. North’s Economic History of the United States-Notes
My Keynote on #GIS was featured…
Here I was happy to speak at California State Fullerton- great campus community!
Notes on Schermerhorn’s “Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism”
Calvin Schermerhorn’s The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism “details the interstate United States slave trade at the level of the firm.”[1] Schermerhorn investigates slave traders who were business insiders as well as merchants using financial processes that characterized raw ambition. The monetary flows influencing the roots of American capitalism through these … Continue reading Notes on Schermerhorn’s “Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism”
A Speculative Diary of Alice Jones Rhinelander #race #passing
1934, Winter Dear Diary, How strange society is! Even stranger this thing called courting. I was once so hotly pursued now left cold and forgotten. It is not easy to accept especially when he had been so ardent before. He is now completely altered and gone away. After the court case I decided to think … Continue reading A Speculative Diary of Alice Jones Rhinelander #race #passing
Musings on Victorian Double Standards
Bending down to pick up ten dollars which dropped from her hand, she felt a jolt to her bottom-someone had kicked her. She looked up only to see that the violator had run off laughing at her. His laughter was a physical response to his amusement- her body bent over and her choice of life. … Continue reading Musings on Victorian Double Standards
