textiles

How the Survivors of Slavery Used Material Objects to Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom

Tiya Miles Considers the Importance of Material Ownership in the Context of Black History

 
By Tiya Miles  September 26, 2022
Greek Mythology

Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

By Claire Heywood  June 22, 2021
Material History

The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

By Alanna Okun  November 27, 2019
American History

Piecing Together the Lives
of Enslaved Americans

By Rachel May  November 21, 2019
Archaeology

What If We Called It the ‘Flax Age’ Instead of the ‘Iron Age’?

By Kassia St. Clair  November 19, 2019

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