It has been an AGE since I last updated this project blog. Prepare for a long update. Luckily, much has happened! I finished my first year of graduate school, but I also made some breakthroughs with the Dunlaps. Just to recap, in the last episode I was trying to piece together the deed path of…
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Digging into the Dunlaps (a.k.a. please appreciate your local archives)
I am realizing that I have taken a lot of resources for granted on the sole basis that in the past I have studied well-known topics. When you’re dealing with macro-level institutions or well-studied historical figures (or even people adjacent to well-studied historical figures), there’s often a lot of digitized content, previous scholarship, and online…
Introducing Dunlap
When I was eighteen and in my senior year of high school, the local government tore down a 180-year-old home in my home town. Now, however, Dunlap has been on my mind.