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Tiya’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Tiya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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2021
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
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2023
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
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2024
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5 editions
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The Cherokee Rose
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2015
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9 editions
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
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2017
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10 editions
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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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2015
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
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2005
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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
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2010
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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
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2006
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American Quarterly (American Studies Association), June 2009 (Volume 61)
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Some of you commented that you liked the “postcard” format from my June post, so here is another one! Over a long weekend this summer, my family visited Yellowstone National Park. This has been an annual tradition of ours for the past decade. My favorite place to stay in the park is the Old Faithful Inn, a remarkable melding of architectural and natural beauty. Many of the rustic chambers have sha
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Hi Richard, Thanks for your very kind words, your interest in the essay, and your question! I'm working on multiple projects right now. The one on the front burner is a cultural history of women in the abolitionist movement. I can't predict when it w
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| I dove into Percival Everett’s The Trees this summer because a friend told me I should read it before starting on Everett’s latest, James, which is high on my to-read list. What I found in The Trees surprised me in a good yet tension-filled way. The ...more | |
“Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“As one historian of slavery and capitalism concluded: “The number of enslaved migrants who made it from the depths of the cotton and sugar frontiers all the way to the free states probably numbered under a thousand during all the years of slavery. That amounts to one-tenth of 1 percent of all forced migrants.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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