Project News
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NOTE: This Project News Page is no longer being actively updated.
Fall 2016
- Awarded a Public Scholar grant for work on Henrietta Wood book
Summer 2016
- Gains made in research on Cirode Family after trip to New Orleans archives
- Gains made in research on Tousey Family and Cirodes thanks to RA Assignments by Clair Hopper
- Completed full-length book proposal
Spring 2016
- Prepared initial book proposal on Henrietta Wood, partly thanks to space and time Rice faculty writers’ retreat over Spring Break
- Applied to NEH Public Scholar Program to support writing of book
- Made major gains in research on Arthur H. Simms
Fall 2015
- Received a faculty research fellowship from the Humanities Research Center at Rice
- Moved more decisively to work on a book about Henrietta Wood
- At the end of September, went on a Research Road Trip to visit Archives Chicago, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville, and Frankfort to conduct research on Wood v. Ward
- In November, traveled to Historic Natchez Foundation
- Reviewed page proofs for a chapter on Refugeed Slaves to Texas that will appear in a volume edited by Frank de la Teja from University of Oklahoma Press
Summer 2015
- Presented research on Confederate state policy in Texas at Remaking North American Sovereignty conference in Banff; see HTML or PDF version, as well as 20150604 - RNAS Conference Brainstorm.
Spring 2015
- Presented research about Henrietta Wood at 20150508 - Stephanie Camp Conference
Fall 2014
- Began shifting to research on Henrietta Wood, following email about her from Richard Blackett received in September
- Built out pages on Zebulon Ward and Gerard Brandon
Summer 2014
- Delivered paper about the project at the second annual UNICAMP-Rice workshop in Campinas, Brazil.
- Submitted revised version of paper presented at Texas State symposium for publication in anthology.
- Submitted funding proposals for research on the project.
Spring 2014
- Presented paper about the project at the “Lone Star Unionism and Dissent” symposium at Texas State. See 20140116 - Unionism Symposium Thoughts. You can also watch video of the event.
- Presented paper at the 2014 OAH meeting in Atlanta. See 20140415 - Post-Conference Thoughts.
- Gave 20140421 - Brown Bag Presentation in my department about the project.
Fall 2013
- Spent four weeks at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University as a visiting faculty fellow and delivered a talk on the project. See 20131203 - Gilder Lehrman Center Talk Notes.
- Worked my way through the microfilmed papers of the Avery Family and continued summer work on the Weeks Family.
- Wrote a script to make uploads to my Omeka site easier; added a Bibtex2Html plugin to this site so that bibliographic data would be rendered as more human-readable citations, and added a sidebar link to allow searching for page topic in Omeka.
- Several RA Assignments joined the project, working primarily on the Texas Telegraph and Register, Railey family, and Samuel Q. Richardson topics.
- Read several pieces of secondary literature from my Reading List, including johnson2013, glymph2008, downs2011, kerby1972, martinez2013, follett2005, and numerous articles.
Summer 2013
- Examined the records of Pendleton Murrah and Andrew Jackson Hamilton at the TSLAC in Austin.
- HRC Interns completed assignments on Marshall Texas Republican and Texas WPA Narratives.
- Published an online white paper: How Many Slaves Were Refugeed to Confederate Texas?, drawing on notes about Refugeed Slaves and Confederate Slave Impressment.
- Two HRC Interns joined this project as research assistants for the summer posted revisions to some of the pages on this site, especially Texas WPA Narratives, Marshall Texas Republic, and Telegraph and Texas Register.
- County Tax Records for Anderson, Freestone, Rusk, Cherokee, and Van Zandt were uploaded to Omeka.
Spring 2013
- Visited Nicholls State University to photograph and examine the Martin-Pugh Collection there.
- Learned that next academic year I will have a one-month fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University to support the writing of an article on Refugeed Slaves in Texas.
- Uploaded letters between A. H. Abney and the Texas Military Board to an Omeka collection.
- Delivered brief talk on my new project to the Rice-UNICAMP workshop (slides and speaking notes).
- Finished going through transcriptions of letters in Martin-Pugh Collection provided by archivists at Nicholls State University. See Martin-Littlejohn-Pugh Family for details.
I only began keeping this page at the beginning of 2013, so previous work on the project is not recorded here.