Hello World, and welcome to the introductory post on my blog.
I currently work in the field of interactive media development and online publishing, but I am also a history graduate student at Arizona State University. I am looking to transition into working as a historian in the future.
My research interests include the Civil War Era, transportation networks, and media representation of current and historical events. Along that line, in a recent class, I wrote a research paper on how Civil War era newspapers portrayed the question of formal recognition of the CSA by Britain, and how it differed from the actual diplomatic reality of the time.
Related to one of my research interests, here is an article from Time written by my Civil War Era professor Dr, Calvin Schermerhorn. It discusses how Baltimore, Maryland’s current racial troubles recently brought to the surface during the Freddie Gray incident have a history rooted in Slavery dating back before the Civil War.
Here is a link to the article: http://time.com/3901537/baltimore-slavery-history/
Street map image (by Lucas Fielding) shows Baltimore, Maryland, 1836. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)