Dr. Rebecca Lee Davis Crumpler was the first African-American female physician in the United States. Born Rebecca Davis in Christiana, Delaware, she was raised by her Aunt, a nurse in Pennsylvania. Her…
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Braiding Experiments: AKA Lessons Learned in Japanese Braiding
The value of Archaeological Experiments often if found in the mistakes that we make while researching and I have really experiences this with my Japanese Braiding. I have been studying kumihimo for…
What is Experimental Archaeology?
Experimental archaeology is a form of a primary source. It is undervalued in some areas of research, particularly in Living History and Re-enactment organizations. And yet, experimental archaeology is a fundamental part…
What are Ethnographic Sources?
In this blog, we focus on Ethnographic sources, a type of primary source that is inconsistently outside of academia, and yet they are invaluable. So far we have already covered Primary Sources…
The History of the Yule Log
Researching the Midwinter Yule, and the tradition of Yule Logs, has brought forth many fond memories for me. I loved gathering at the fireplace Christmas day to spend the day with my…
Midwinter Yule
One of my favorite aspects of the holiday season are all the holiday lights: our decorated Christmas tree, the candles in the windows, and a fire in the fireplace. These lights brighten…
Christmas Stockings, A Brief History
One of my favorite Christmas traditions growing up were the Christmas stockings my mom handmade and personalized for my brother and me. On Christmas Eve, we hung our stockings by the fireplace…
Christmas Tinsel: The Legend of the Christmas Spider
This was one of my favorite holiday stories as a child, and like all folktales there are many variations of it. This is the version I remember from my youth. The Legend…
Written Accounts and Visual Representations as Primary Sources
Academic scholars also consider written accounts, such as diaries, writing on monuments, letters, commonplace books, autobiographies, wills, court documents, treaties, books of law, and merchant logs as primary sources.
Photographs in Archaeology as a Primary Source
In academia, photographs are not just considered an acceptable primary source; they are an invaluable one. Archaeological research often destroys the item that it uncovers, and the only way these artifacts are…