Centreville

Like one of my favorite Presidents of the United States, the under-sung James K. Polk, I pulled off quite a bit of work in just four expressions of the sun’s effect on the Earth. In four years Polk facilitated one of the grandest land grabs in American history by seizing swaths of Mexico and settling…

Indexes and other Connections: My Week 14

In my most recent blog post I embedded a video from the 1973 Charlton Heston film Soylent Green. The plot of the aforesaid film revolves around police investigator (Heston) pursuing a mysterious death in an over-populated, over-polluted New York City in a similarly overwhelmed world where human life is cheap and food shortages forced the…

Old Line State: Alex Champion’s Week 1 in Annapolis

(The placement and captions of the images were altered following this post’s migration to WordPress) As anticipated my first week at the Maryland State Archives, and more specifically the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland (LOSIM, pronounced loe-sim) research project, transpired quickly in a flurry of introductions to people, introductions to technologies and procedures, but also…