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In his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the ancestral right of the colonizer to rule. 1 The a…

My research traces the history of one type of educational institution in North Carolina from the beginning to the end of the Southern progressive movement. Progressivism was a national movement that re-interpreted the role of the state in the nation’s economic and social life. R…

In the nineteenth century the circulation of printed images expanded through photography and the illustrated press, which offered a tremendous amount of new visual knowledge to the wide audience that consumed such media. This diffusion of visual media created a “Republic of Imag…