Historical Memory (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What can we learn from urban archaeology about the early formation of American identity that can help us address the many current challenges to social justice? Historical narratives are constantly rewritten to serve various interests of power. Archaeology can help us to see the constructedness of those narratives and...
Black Pioneers, Indigenous Turncoats, and Confederate Officers: A Microhistory of the Oregon Territory’s Rogue River War, 1855-56 (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The historical memory of the Oregon Territory was crafted in memoirs published in newspapers around the turn of the 20th century. These narratives minimized the complexity of the events, smoothed over the contradictions and genocidal violence of settler colonialism, and erased the...
Interpreting the History of the Pullman Porters at the New Pullman National Monument Visitors Center (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. President Obama established the Pullman National Monument in 2015. He described Pullman as a “milestone on our journey toward a more perfect union” and directed the National Park Service (NPS) to interpret the industrial and labor history of the site, including “the rise and role of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.”...
Perceptions of the Matacanela Archaeological Site by the People of Zapoapan de Cabañas (2015)
The town of Zapoapan de Cabañas, located south of Lake Catemaco, Veracruz is adjacent to the archaeological site of Matacanela. Even though little historical continuity exists between the archaeological site and the contemporary settlement, perceptions that Zapoapan’s inhabitants have about the site are informative because they suggest how the site is internalized and integrated into daily life. The historical memory of the inhabitants of Zapoapan de Cabañas, through oral tradition and the reuse...
Two Millennia of Resilience: The Old Town Bandon Site on the Oregon Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Town Bandon site is a large archaeological site on the Oregon Coast that lies beneath the sidewalks of a settler community. The site has been the subject of over 30 years of archaeological research guided by the Coquille Indian Tribe. This work has revealed the...