Upper Midwest (Geographic Keyword)

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Evidence of a Lost Cause, Fire, and Great Migration all Bound-Up in Redlines: A Century-and-a-Half of Archaeological Evidence from Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael M. Gregory. Jane D. Peterson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Neighborhoods and Communities (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood generated and preserved deposits dating to the Civil War when Camp Douglas--a training/POW facility--existed in the area. In part, these deposits document the origins of the Lost Cause narrative, the consequences of the Jim Crow South, and the...

Migrant Invisibility in the Industrial Built Environment (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah F Scarlett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The industrial-era migration experience has long been a focus for historical archaeologists and historians of architecture alike. But how can methods from both archaeology and architecture be used to illuminate ethnic identity when typologies fail and standard built environment patterns prove invisible? This paper presents a work-in-progress...