The woman highlighted in red is Lucy Higgs Nichols. Born into slavery in Tennessee, she managed to escape during the Civil War and eventually found her way to the 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, which was stationed nearby. Nichols remained with the regiment and served as a nurse…

Lastest issue of JSDP dropped- check out my article & dataset for EnslavedOrg about Tennessee's Black Civil War Veterans and the Records of Incarceration in the State Penitentiary. Many Fort Negley Park, a UNESCO Site of Memory people there. jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl…

Honored to be the opening speaker at the LGBT+ College Conference in Murfreesboro, TN

israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years

finished two boxes of the growing Bettie Page Collection 💋

she's beauty, she's grace, she's officially live on Vanderbilt's Special Collections site: collections.library.vanderbilt.edu/repositories/2…

During the Little Ice Age, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by as much as 5 degrees. To survive, Europeans doubled down on hierarchy. But Native North Americans devised whole new political structures, Kathleen DuVal writes. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

I have to routinely show this map because there are so many new followers. This is an 1894 map by the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology showing the mound sites they had identified at that time--but only in the eastern half of the USA. The red dots are sites, many with multiple…

The Knoxville College Hospital existed from 1907 to 1926. This photo taken there shows seven men and women engaged in medical training. The first Black American Red Cross nurse in the United States, Frances Elliot Davis, got her initial training there. #WomensHistoryMonth

I'm so excited to announce it! Thanks to this generous support from Vanderbilt Community Relations, the AACA and descendants of Fort Negley Park, a UNESCO Site of Memory and I are making a documentary with the emmy-winning videographer, Seck, entitled 'What Happened to Bass Street?'