{"id":6835,"date":"2023-08-13T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:16:16","slug":"wapo-features-research-from-southern-spaces-on-gravestone-in-black-georgetown-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/08\/13\/wapo-features-research-from-southern-spaces-on-gravestone-in-black-georgetown-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Features Research from Southern Spaces on Gravestone in Black Georgetown Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/nannie-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/nannie-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/nannie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/nannie-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/nannie-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/nannie.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Emory&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/southernspaces.org\/\"><em>Southern<\/em> <em>Spaces<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>a digital journal about the U.S. South and its global connections, recently featured an investigation by <a href=\"https:\/\/southernspaces.org\/author\/mauslander\/\">Mark Auslander<\/a> (Mount Holyoke College) and <a href=\"https:\/\/southernspaces.org\/author\/lisa-fager\/\">Lisa Fager<\/a> (Black Georgetown Foundation) titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/southernspaces.org\/2023\/nannies-stone-commemoration-and-resistance\/\">Nannie&#8217;s Stone: Commemoration and Resistance<\/a>.&#8221; In the article the authors discuss the likely identity of a girl named Nannie, whose gravestone in a historic Black cemetery in Georgetown, D.C., has been shrouded in mystery. <em>The Washin<\/em>gton Post recently featured Auslander and Fager&#8217;s research in an article about the grave, which was unfortunately set on fire earlier this summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/tullos-allen-e.html\">Dr. Allen Tullos<\/a>, Professor of History, is also Senior Director of ECDS. Read the Washington Post article here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/07\/19\/nannie-gravestone-identity\/\">A girl\u2019s gravestone mystified strangers. We may now know her identity<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emory&#8217;s Southern Spaces, a digital journal about the U.S. South and its global connections, recently featured an investigation by Mark Auslander (Mount Holyoke College) and Lisa Fager (Black Georgetown Foundation) titled &#8220;Nannie&#8217;s Stone: Commemoration and Resistance.&#8221; In the article the authors discuss the likely identity of a girl named Nannie, whose gravestone in a historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities","category-faculty","category-public-humanities","category-public-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}