A Tangent Research Project: Vanished Black Community of Nineveh

It was about a year ago that I first heard of Nineveh. Not the Bible story (it took me an embarrassingly long time to remember it’s connection to Jonah and the Whale), but a local neighborhood in my city, Troy, Ohio. I don’t remember how Nineveh first came to my attention. I just remember beingContinue reading “A Tangent Research Project: Vanished Black Community of Nineveh”

Being the Other

1920 Alaska is fascinating. The country as a whole was on the cups of modernization. Edison started his electric company back in the 1880s, and by 1925 50% of the United States had residential electricity. The 1908 Model T were rapidly replacing carriages and carts. There are plenty of pictures taken in Nome that showContinue reading “Being the Other”