Kirkpatrick Sale wants to establish Hudsonia
The involvement of quirky, generally lefty New York intellectual Kirkpatrick Sale in the Vermont secession movement allowed the New York …
Author Archives: lewisshepherd
A landmark reassessment of the Colonial-Indian Encounters in the 17th Century
2005 saw a great new online/offline publishing project, introducing new scholarship and historical insight: “With the approach of the four-hundredth …
Architectural historian Camille Wells on “The Multistoried House”
In 1998, Camille Wells wrote this terrific survey of the literature – and schools of thought – in the architectural …
The Day the Flag Went Up in Modern South Carolina
On the one hundredth anniversary of the shots fired at Fort Sumter, the nation saw a bizarre real-life reenactment of …
Spencer Roane profile in 1953 Harvard Law Review
See 1953 article, “Judge Spencer Roane of Virginia: Champion of States’ Rights, Foe of John Marshall” in the Harvard Law …
Richmond Times Dispatch on Nathaniel Bacon
On Dec. 30, 1934, the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran the following article: Nathaniel Bacon – Rebel “Patriot” Last Resting Place of …
Colonial Dames decide Bacon needs to be in the House
1916: A plaque to honor Nathaniel Bacon, who “believed in governing by the consent of the people,” was placed behind the …
Early photograph of the new roof (roofs) on the house
Circa 1910: This photo was likely taken early 20th century, I’m guessing 1910 or so, given the age of the …
“At the mercy of the lawless and vicious”: Richmond under Reconstruction
1908, December 9: The Richmond Bar Association heard a powerful depiction of Reconstruction and its ills, in a speech by a Virginian who epitomized …
The House in 1898
Circa 1898: The W.L. Crutchfield family, in front of Mahockney, in a photo dated “c. 1898” in our copy. We …
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