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Recent Posts
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Review: Ken Burns’ American Revolution
This spectacularly inspiring story of our founding, as dark and complex as it is, has — I think, I hope — the ability to add something to the conversation right now that is unifying.” [1] Ken Burns Ken Burns is an American legend. Few documentarians have attracted such attention and…
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New Article: The Cobb County Stadium
Today, my newest article was posted by the online journal Atlanta Studies. It looks at Cobb County’s attempts in the 1950s and ‘60s to build a professional baseball stadium in roughly the same area where Truist Park would open in 2017. Using this story, I explore civic boosterism, white flight,…
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Trip Photos: Myrtle Hill Cemetery
Earlier today, we visited Rome, Georgia, and the city’s historic Myrtle Hill Cemetery. The cemetery was opened in 1857 on land previously owned by Alfred Shorter. It was briefly a fort during the Civil War and was expanded throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The cemetery is owned and…
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Trip Photos: Albemarle, NC
This weekend I am in Albemarle, NC, where my grandparents live and where my Dad grew up. Dad is giving a presentation to the Stanly County Historical Society about Kingville, the historic African American area of Albemarle. While here this weekend, I wanted to photograph parts of downtown. Some of…
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New Article: William Randolph Hearst and the Atlanta Georgian
Today, my newest article in the Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research was published. Titled “The Seduction of Journalism in Atlanta: William Randolph Hearst and the Atlanta Georgian,” the article looks at the media mogul’s ownership of the forgotten daily Atlanta newspaper. While Hearst officially bought the paper in 1912, I…
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Presidential Homes of Virginia
Last week, I returned to Charlottesville for a class at the Rare Book School on the University of Virginia’s campus. While in the area, I visited James Madison’s Montpelier, the site of James Monroe’s Highland, and the ruins of Barboursville, a house designed by Thomas Jefferson. On my trip to…
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Savannah: Vintage and Modern Images
Last week, I went to Savannah as part of the Cities as Text program of KSU’s Journey Honors College. We stayed at a hotel on Bay Street and walked on foot across the entire historic district. During the trip, I visited all 24 of the city’s historic squares, including two…
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Symposium for History Undergraduate Research
This weekend, I participated in the Symposium for History Undergraduate Research held at Mississippi State University. Two other KSU students presented at the conference, and the keynote speaker was KSU’s Dr. Silke Zoller. This conference was a great way to meet history students from across the United States, and even…
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Spring Symposium of Student Scholars
This afternoon, I presented at KSU’s Spring Symposium of Student Scholars. My project was a poster titled “Mapping Homes of Georgia’s Governors and Their Westward Shift (1776–2024).” This was first created as a final project in a geography class with Dr. Qihang Qiu last fall. This poster looks at the…
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The Eventful Life of C. C. Coyle
At about half-past five on September 29, 1912, the crowd gathered at the Marietta depot was more anxious than usual about the upcoming train. After the regularly scheduled passenger train, a second train arrived at the station with one of the most respected men in America. Theodore Roosevelt was returning…
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New Article: Vanished: Where are the Hotel Ansley Murals?
My latest article for Georgia Backroads magazine arrived in the mail today. The article is titled “Vanished: Where are the Hotel Ansley Murals?” and tells the story of a series of murals depicting Georgia history that once resided in the lobby of Atlanta’s Hotel Ansley. Once the pride and joy…
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Trip Photos: The Chief Vann House
When the Chief Vann House in Murray County was built, it was the first brick house in the Cherokee nation. It was built by enslaved laborers around 1804 for James Vann, and his son Joseph owned the house at the time of the Trail of Tears. Since the 1950s, it…
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Hoover Dam
For Christmas this year, my parents got me two sets of small souvenir photographic prints from the West. One set (covered here) shows the Hoover Dam, while the other shows the Columbia River Highway. I plan to spotlight the Columbia River Highway photos in the future. Construction began on the…
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New Article: Town with a Colorful History
Starting in October 2021, I wrote a series of articles about Kennesaw history for Around Kennesaw magazine. That magazine ended in October 2023, and I have not published anything similar since. I am excited to share that this year, the new West Cobb City Lifestyle magazine has asked me to…
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1954 Tournament of Roses
Last year, I acquired a collection of glass slides from the 1954 Tournament of Roses. All of these wonderful images were taken exactly 71 years ago today. To celebrate the New Year, I have created a digital exhibit using these images. It can be accessed using the button below. All…
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Reading in 2024
Now that we are at the end of 2024, I have decided to do a year-in-review of the different books and articles that I have read this year. More information about all of the books I have read this year (and previous years) can be found in a list on…
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Cobb County, 1832
The Cherokee lived in North Georgia until the 1830s, when they were forcibly removed in what came to be known as the Trail of Tears.[1] In 1832, the State of Georgia surveyed the Cherokee lands to prepare for a lottery, where settlers would be given randomly selected plots of land…
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Choosing the President: Books on Election Campaigns
With the 2024 presidential election a week away, I wanted to share a series of election history books I have read. These stretch from the first hotly contested election in 1800 up into the twentieth century. For an overview of election history, I suggest Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks,…
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Trip Photos – Westview Cemetery
Last week, I took a tour of Atlanta’s Westview Cemetery sponsored by the Atlanta Preservation Center. Westview is around 600 acres (half of which is developed) and is the South’s largest civilian cemetery. Through the following photos, I have shared some of the highlights. Special thanks to our tour guide,…
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Trip Photos – Asheville Area
Back on the weekend of August 24-25, we visited the Asheville area for a weekend trip. While there, I took photos of the Grove Park Inn, W. J. Bryan House, and Biltmore Estate. Below are the best pictures I made. These photos were originally posted on my Archive of the Past social…
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Wilson: An Idealist in a Less-than-Ideal Movie
I am a fan of presidential history, and I am a fan of classic movies, so I was surprised to realize that these two interests have rarely overlapped. (All the President’s Men and 1776 are the exceptions.) This week, I found out about a box office bomb presidential biopic I…
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New Article: Kennesaw Mountain Almost Became a Cold War Bunker
My latest article can be found in the Autumn 2024 edition of Georgia Backroads magazine. Titled “Kennesaw Mountain Almost Became a Cold War Bunker,” it tells the forgotten story of plans to turn historic Kennesaw Mountain into a missile defense bunker. Information about purchasing this edition of the magazine can…
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New Article: Thomas R. Marshall
I am very excited to share my latest article. It tells the story of Vice President Thomas Marshall, who was speaking in Atlanta when he was (incorrectly!) told Woodrow Wilson had passed away. The article was published in the Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research, and was sponsored by Dr. David…
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Finding Thomas Jefferson
Just after the Fourth of July this year, I visited Virginia to attend Rare Book School. My mom and I saw Jefferson’s famed home, Monticello, and spent a week on the campus of his beloved University of Virginia. We finished the week at his retreat home, Poplar Forest. (Photos of…
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