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A Zooarchaeological Perspective on the 1908 Race Riot Site (11SG1432) in Springfield, Illinois (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Springfield Railroad Improvements Project necessitated the mitigation of parts of five house sites that were burned down by a mob driven by racial hatred in August, 1908. Whereas archaeological investigations by Fever River Research have emphasized the families and individuals that were directly impacted by this event, research...