June 24, 2024
Taylor Rossini, WPAMC '24
A picturesque historic street is hardly complete without its requisite cobbled paving stones. Evocatively pre-industrial, charmingly challenging to navigate, we encountered cobblestone streets in numerous site visits throughout both Southern and Northern field studies. While today the historic downtowns of many a colonial city include cobblestone streets, these pleasingly “original” features are subject to dubious ...
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June 17, 2024
Dorian Cole, WPAMC '24
Charleston is a city of layers, buildings on top of buildings on top of bodies. As part of a local ghost tour, a guide assures visitors in a cemetery that they shouldn’t worry about stepping on the graves because “no matter where you stand in this city, you’re stepping on someone’s grave.” In Charleston, the Civil War sits stiffly on the lap of the Revolution. Lost Cause monuments share a park with the grave of a ...
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June 11, 2024
Cecelia Eure, WPAMC '24
While I unfortunately had to miss the WPAMC Southern trip this June, I had the pleasure of attending the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Summer Institute in Winston Salem, NC. This year, the institute was focused on the Lowcountry, and our trip took our cohort of eight (along with our mentors from MESDA and beyond) to Charleston, Savannah, the Georgia Sea Islands, and all the way down to Kingsley Plantation ...
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December 04, 2023
Dorian Cole, WPAMC '24
A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory…Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence.Max Weber, “Politics as a ...
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