John Lee exploring digital history

This image comes from Alan C. Collin's 1935/1962 textbook The Story of America in Pictures. The illustrations depicts colonial settlers in the 18th century Carolinas. The text accompanying the illustration suggest difference between North and South Carolina. I reads...



"Although some colonists had filtered southward from Virgina the settlement of the region between that colony and Florida was placed by the king in the hands of eight of his friends, who became the Proprietors. Two… Continue

In a 1982 paper by Georgia State historian Tim Crimmins' titled "Atlanta Palimpsest: Stripping Away the Layers of the Past" professor Crimmins describes the history of Atlanta in spatial terms as a palimpsest-- a landscape that has been written on, cleared, and then rewritten. (Also see Crang M, 1996, "Envisioning urban histories: Bristol as palimpsest, postcards, and snapshots" Environment and Planning A 28(3) 429 – 452).



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