Midwestern USA (Geographic Keyword)

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The Archaeology of Racial Hatred: Discovery and Partial Excavation of Seven Houses Destroyed During the Springfield Race Riot of August 1908 (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Stratton. Floyd R. Mansberger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, in anticipation of rail improvements through Springfield, Illinois, Fever River Research mitigated portions of five houses occupied predominately by Black tenants that were destroyed by a white mob in the 1908 Springfield Race Riot—a seminal event that led to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of...

Private Utilities and Public Resources: 19th-Century Capitalism and Local Governance in Northwest Ohio (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Chidester.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Northwest Ohio experienced explosive growth in the second half of the 19th century due to the importance of Toledo as a Great Lakes shipping entrepôt as well as the discovery of oil and natural gas deposits in the counties to the south of Toledo. From the 1870s to the early 1900s private ventures and local governments sparred over...