I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...

I’m in residence at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden working on my 18th century runaway project and participating in a preventive...

The stepped structure of the Maryland State Archives on Rowe Blvd, Annapolis. For a building built in 1984, I think the Maryland State...

I roll over this analogy in my mind as I work with my study of 1,000 runaway indentured and enslaved women and their 6,000 garments,...

“Maid service is getting harder and harder to find at any price and only too often, even if you pay top wages, you will have to put up...

Online databases are incredible tools. While my museum career has mostly focused on textiles, dress, and ethnographic materials, I never...

For those of you who are scrubbing floors this weekend and taking down cobwebs from those hard to reach places, a morsel of knowledge...

For those of you who are scrubbing floors this weekend and taking down cobwebs from those hard to reach places, a morsel of knowledge...