Indigenous Dispossession, Resistance, and the Carceral State in Atlanta
Project funded by FUSE 2026 Grant by the University of North Georgia’s CURCA office.
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The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Reminds Us That Labor is a Cultural Fight
“[W]e were, due to our ignorance and poverty, helpless against the power of the exploiters,” described Triangle Shirtwaist worker Pauline M. Newman in a letter speaking about her experience at the factory.[1] The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 workers in New York City but covertly revealed the American cultural violence which maintained tacit silence…
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On Dahlonega Nugget Newspaper Articles
Recently, I compiled a small collection of newspaper articles that mentioned Black people in the Dahlonega Nugget. Many of these articles involve…
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On Georgia Historical Newspapers Project
For this and next week, I will be using the Georgia Historical Newspapers project from the Digital Library of Georgia to investigate…
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Atlanta in the Great Migration as a Beacon of Destination
While Black populations in cities across the South declined during the Great Migration as Black laborers fled a Southern life marked by…
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Preliminary Examination of Black Populations in the United States, 1910-1970
Today I examined a dataset of Black population changes in large cities through census records between 1910 and 1970. Both datasets show…
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Examining Survivor Data of the Titanic with Respect to Gender and Age
While the final report of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce investigating the sinking of the Titanic acknowledged a preference given to…
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DATASET PUBLISHED: Roll of Students of North Georgia Agricultural College, 1873
This dataset is related to a project I’m currently undertaking related to the first class of students at the North Georgia Agricultural…
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Exploratory Graphing of Titanic Data
Today I engaged in some exploratory graphing of a dataset of survivors of the Titanic. Here are my findings. This graph shows…
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Preliminary Review of the Titanic Dataset
The 2012 dataset of the R.M.S. Titanic from Kaggle provides a social cross-section of the passengers aboard the Titanic and those that…
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William P. Price: Professional Con Artist, Founder of the University of North Georgia
William P. Price is the founder of the University of North Georgia, then called North Georgia Agricultural College. He has long been…
Dahlonega’s Lost Cause Archive
In coordination with my project on Confederate Memory and Identity at the University of North Georgia, I’ve created an archive page of local history documents related to Northeast Georgia’s confederate history.