Author: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812224957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Bitstreams, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum distills twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives to argue that bits—the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing— always depend on the material world that surrounds them to form the bulwark for preserving the future of literary heritage.
Bitstreams
Author: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812224957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Bitstreams, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum distills twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives to argue that bits—the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing— always depend on the material world that surrounds them to form the bulwark for preserving the future of literary heritage.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812224957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Bitstreams, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum distills twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives to argue that bits—the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing— always depend on the material world that surrounds them to form the bulwark for preserving the future of literary heritage.
The Silent Shore
Author: Charles L. Chavis Jr.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the society.
The Green Spring Valley
Author: Dawn F. Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Essex and Middle River
Author: M. Linda Martinak
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738553047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The origins of Essex and Middle River can be traced back to the early 1800s, though Essex did not attain an official community name until 1908. The area grew rapidly, particularly because of the Glenn L. Martin Company, which employed more than 53,000 residents during World War II.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738553047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The origins of Essex and Middle River can be traced back to the early 1800s, though Essex did not attain an official community name until 1908. The area grew rapidly, particularly because of the Glenn L. Martin Company, which employed more than 53,000 residents during World War II.
History of Western Maryland
Author: John Thomas Scharf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegany County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegany County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Tested Maryland Recipes
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U S a
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
History of Barnesville and Sellman, Maryland
Author: Dona Cuttler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788411809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book tracks the history of Barnesville and Sellman, in Montgomery County, Maryland. The land that became Barnesville was surveyed for Jeremiah Hays, December 10, 1747. The tracts "Jeremiah's Park" and "Hopson's Choice" were just two of the properties
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788411809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book tracks the history of Barnesville and Sellman, in Montgomery County, Maryland. The land that became Barnesville was surveyed for Jeremiah Hays, December 10, 1747. The tracts "Jeremiah's Park" and "Hopson's Choice" were just two of the properties
Early Families of Frederick County, Maryland and Adams County, Pennsylvania
Author: Steve Gilland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585494231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Family names: Ambrose, Boarman, Carbaugh, Dyer, Elder, Finch, Flohr, Gilland, Greene, Hagan, Kint, Klein, Kline (Cline), Livers, Shriner, Spalding, Wildasin.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585494231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Family names: Ambrose, Boarman, Carbaugh, Dyer, Elder, Finch, Flohr, Gilland, Greene, Hagan, Kint, Klein, Kline (Cline), Livers, Shriner, Spalding, Wildasin.