A Most Savage Tale
In Season 2, Episode 5, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe investigates the life of Thomas Savage, a Jamestown colonist who, as a boy, was given over to the Indians.… Read More»
Keeping House with Marion Harland
In Season 2, Episode 4, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe reads Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery (1871) by Marion Harland. The Virginian brought cookbooks to the… Read More»
Another Man’s Property
In Season 2, Episode 3, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe marvels at Anthony Johnson, a slaveholder on the Eastern Shore who, earlier in life, had been known only as… Read More»
A Monstrous Tongue of Flame
In Season 2, Episode 2, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe remembers one of the strangest and most heartbreaking of Civil War battles: the Battle of the Crater. It began… Read More»
Her Body Was Not Her Own
In Season 2, Episode 1, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe introduces us to Carrie Buck, the plaintiff in the notorious Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) that authorized Buck’s… Read More»
This Day (I Heart Snobs Edition)
On this day in 1897, William Cuthbert Falkner, known as William Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, to Murry Cuthbert Falkner, a railroad worker, and Maud Butler, a housewife. New… Read More»
This Day (Doing the Dozens Edition)
On this day in 1789, twelve amendments to the still-new United States Constitution were sent to the states, including Virginia, for ratification. That’s right: the Bill of Rights originally had… Read More»
This Day (Lost and Found Edition)
On this day 150 years ago, at about 10 o’clock in the morning, give or take, a Union corporal named Barton W. Mitchell, of the 27th Indiana, found a stray… Read More»
The Mystery of Don Luis (Part 3)
In Season 1, Episode 6, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe concludes the remarkable story of a Virginia Indian named Don Luis. After nine years abroad, he returns home with… Read More»
Slavery by the Numbers (redux)
Almost six years ago, I wrote a blog post, “Slavery by the Numbers,” that included a number of statistics about American slavery presented in the manner of a Harper’s Index.… Read More»
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