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The physical landscape at James Madison's Montpelier underwent drastic changes between the mansion's original construction in 1764 and the end of Madison's life in 1836. These modifications paralleled Madison's rise in social status and increase of political power. This paper seeks to examine the ways in which a male's upward trajectory in the public sphere and subsequent changes to his home led to feminine renegotiations of place in a continually modified space. This paper utilizes...
Resilience and Resistance through Reclamation Storytelling (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The practices and policies of urban planning often result in the ongoing physical and social marginalization of certain neighborhoods and residents, perpetuating white supremacy and classism. Historic preservation and archaeological practice are implicated in these continual moves towards (re)marginalization,...