Today, I’m taking you to Florida and New York to discuss how the history of Saratoga Springs, NY was translated in design to Disney World's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa! It's an excuse for me to discuss history based hotel design and pay homage to an upstate New York town that's close to my heart!

Learn more and bibliography accessible at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M8y2pX-Mk2MfhGIlv_wFljbWZp-LMWoLBdAwGrhA54k/edit?usp=sharing

Today, I’m returning to Virginia with a discussion of Rufus Holsinger’s striking photograph of Marie S. Gordon, on the occasion of her 8th grade graduation! This leads into the larger themes of African American education in Virginia (the Bray School! Gowan Pamphlet! Education in secret!) and visual culture (combating white supremacy with images of dignity!).

Extra resources and bibliography can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P5fKdlA2MxOpPJmiyJ6MZjXv5otzXNDiSYCdY_F5mSQ/edit?usp=sharing

Today, I’m taking you back in time in the Big Apple and discussing tenement life for German immigrants in the 1880s through the eyes of 12 year old Olga Gumpertz. It's a bit of a twist on the usual Jacob Riis narrative. Apologies ahead for some of the audio inconsistencies, recording was just a little crazy today! Enjoy!

Today on Works Not Cited, I’m taking cues from musical theatre yet again by discussing the life of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, who secured Vincent van Gogh’s legacy, strove for self-improvement and fulfillment, and features prominently in the musical Starry.

Episode Notes (apparently there's a lot!)- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zIuDAS-kuKwEEIqtYdoRUJFVjWk3onE_seI7AKBbHC0/edit?usp=sharing

Today, I’m talking about a hotel I had a really yummy 20th birthday cupcake at; Disney’s Contemporary Resort!! If you didn’t know, I am a total Disney nerd and indulge myself today by talking about modernism, technology, urban planning, female artists, and, you guessed it, Richard Nixon at the happiest place on earth!

Episode notes were too big, so they can be found here- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_AG380TrrginwqstsCJ97B0ivw69bNnq_x5TT3dhVHo/edit?usp=sharing

I was a page into Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s ‘A Fragile Freedom’ when I found my latest topic for a Works Not Cited episode! Today I’m discussing the friendship album of Amy Matilda Cassey, female friendships, and the activism of African American women in mid-19th century Philadelphia!

Learn More-

If They Should Ask- http://www.iftheyshouldask.com/

Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic- https://librarycompany.org/blackfounders/index.htm#.XxB86i3Mw1I

The Cassey & Dickerson Friendship Album Project- https://lcpalbumproject.org/

Bibliography-

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. London: Yale University Press, 2008.

“19th-Century African American Women’s Friendship Albums Online.” Fine Books & Collections. July 11th, 2012. Accessed July 10th, 2020. https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/news/19th-century-african-american-womens-friendship-albums-online.

“History & Materiality.” Cassey & Dickerson: Friendship Album Project. Accessed July 10th, 2020. https://lcpalbumproject.org/?page_id=14.

Good, Cassandra. “How Early-19th-Century Students Cemented Their Bonds Through Friendship Albums.” Slate. May 6th, 2016. Accessed July 10th, 2020. https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/history-of-friendship-in-the-early-republic-friendship-albums-created-by-students.html.

Taunton, Matthew. “Print Culture.” British Library. May 15th, 2014. Accessed July 10th, 2020. https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/print-culture.

“Friendship album of Moyses Walens.” British Library. Accessed July 10th, 2020. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/friendship-album-of-moyses-walens.

“Margaretta Forten.” If They Should Ask. Accessed July 15th, 2020. http://www.iftheyshouldask.com/margaretta-forten/.

“Sarah Mapps Douglass.” If They Should Ask. Accessed July 15th, 2020. http://www.iftheyshouldask.com/sarah-mapps-douglass/.

For the second episode of Works Not Cited: Open House, I discuss two of the dining rooms on the Titanic, First Class and Third Class, and use their design to discuss immigration, historical revivalism, society, wealth, and imperialism. As my longest episode to date, it’s pretty obvious that I’ve got a few thoughts about eating on the ‘ship of dreams.’

Episode notes can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PzyGIDd0PlkHFAsOPsk6BQWROsQY_p-HkoFRs7by3t8/edit?usp=sharing  because they were too big!

To celebrate Hamilton coming to Disney +, I’m talking about the woman who inspired a lot of my research, Eliza Hamilton, and the end of her life in Washington DC.

Suggested Reading!!

Gordon-Reed, Annette. “The intense debates surrounding Hamilton don’t diminish the musical- they enrich it.” Vox. September 13th, 2016. Accessed June 28th, 2020. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/9/13/12894934/hamilton-debates-history-race-politics-literature.

Chandler, Clare. “’Let me be part of the narrative’- The Schuyler Sisters ‘almost’ feminist?” Contemporary Theatre Review 28, vol. 3. Accessed June 28th, 2020. https://www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/2018/chandler-hamilton-almost-feminist/.

Andrews, Maddie. “ ‘I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel’- Why in Hamilton needs to be evaluated.”

Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past. Edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Bibliography

Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution Vol I. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860.

Harrison, Samuel Alexander, Memoir of Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, secretary and aid to Washington. Albany: J. Munsell, 1876.

“November 9: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1854).” The Church of the Epiphany. November 8th, 2017. Accessed June 28th, 2020. http://epiphanydc.org/2017/11/08/november-9-elizabeth-schuyler-hamilton-1854/

Cleveland Daily Herald, Cleveland, Ohio, 1 March 1845. Newspaper article. From The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, University of Virginia, Rotunda. Accessed June 28th, 2020.

Holly, Eliza. Eliza Holly to Catherine Schuyler Malcom Cochran, June 30th; July 16th, 1850; 1851; August 12th, 1851; March 21st, 1851; December 19th, 1852; December 22nd, 1852; July 7th, 1854; November 16th, 1854; 1855. Letter. From Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library, The Hamilton Family Papers, 1768-1930. Accessed July 2nd, 2020.

Holly, Eliza. Eliza Holly to John Church Hamilton, September 5th, 1854. Letter. From Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library, The Hamilton Family Papers, 1768-1930. Accessed July 2nd, 2020.

Today I’m debuting the newest Works Not Cited segment and taking you on a little tour of the Powel House’s parlor!

Links

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Powel House Room- https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/144115.html.

Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, Powel House- https://www.philalandmarks.org/powel-house.

Bibliography

Shields, David S. and Fredrika J. Teute. "The Republican Court and the Historiography of a Women's Domain in the Public Sphere." Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 2 (2015): 169-183.

Lee, Katharine Diane. “’The Young Women Here Enjoy a Liberty’: Philadelphia Women and the Public Sphere, 1760s-1840s.” PhD. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2016.

Kirtley, Alexandra Alevizatos. “Front Parlor from the Powel House, Philadelphia, 1769-70.” Winterthur Portfolio 46, no. 2/3 (2012): E12-E23.

House Tour, Powel House, Philadelphia, PA. May 24th, 2019.

Maust, Ted. “The Account Books of Elizabeth Willing Powel: Part 2, The People.” Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks. November 16th, 2017. Accessed June 24th, 2020. https://www.philalandmarks.org/post/2017/11/03/the-account-books-of-elizabeth-willing-powel-part-2-the-people.

Today, to commemorate Juneteenth, I’m sharing the story of Ona Judge Staines and her escape to freedom from enslavement in the President’s House.

To Learn More….

Colonial Williamsburg will be going live on Facebook on June 19th at 2pm to celebrate Juneteenth- https://www.facebook.com/ColonialWilliamsburg/.

Montpelier has a variety of talks, performances, walking tours, etc planned to celebrate Juneteenth- https://www.montpelier.org/events/2nd-annual-juneteenth-celebration-at-james-madison-s-montpelier;https://ocaahsjuneteenth.org/celebrate/.

Colonial Williamsburg’s Mary Carter portrayed Ona Judge Staines in this amazing performance!!- https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=873753406422492.

Works Cited

Wright, Hope and Deirdre Jones. “What is Juneteenth?” June 10th, 2020. Accessed June 18th, 2020. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/living-history/what-juneteenth/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=black_history&utm_content=juneteenth_blog&nck&fbclid=IwAR25BnS83H5dMCVDDxoaB9MbRHDi3Lm3PYQx7G2JKvsFc5MQQ0QIaNZU8eE.

“History of Juneteenth.” Juneteenth. Accessed June 18th, 2020. http://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm.

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave Ona Judge. New York: 37 Ink, 2017.

Thompson, Mary. “Slavery and Marriage.” George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Accessed June 17th, 2020. https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/slavery-and-marriage/.

“Washington’s Runaway Slave.” US History. Accessed June 18th, 2020. https://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/slaves/oneyinterview.php.