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Random horrors like they're everyday things
In the margins in historic newspapers, reports act as if random horrors of racism and misogyny are everyday things.
Robin Cole-Jett
Feb 1
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Still hanging on: Campti, Louisiana
Campti lies in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, just up the road from the Grand Ecore.
Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 12, 2024
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The Old Washington Tavern
Built about 1830, the Washington Tavern served as a stage coach station as well as the nearest American boarding house to Mexican Texas.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 2, 2024
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Marion Post, Photographer of Cane River Creoles
Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 28, 2023
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Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter
Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter was one of the more colorful characters to inhabit the Red River Valley.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 23, 2023
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Southwestern Arkansas in the Civil War
The people in Southwestern Arkansas before the Civil War were much more populist and had a strong free-soil expansionist base.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
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The Great Hanging of Gainesville in the Newspapers
Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
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The Chickasaws and their Nation
Establishing the Chickasaw Nation along the Red River proved to be a long ordeal.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 13, 2023
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The Colfax Massacre
The Colfax Massacre along the Red River was the most violent episode in Reconstruction Louisiana.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 13, 2023
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Racialist Deflection: Violence in the Red River Valley
The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 13, 2023
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The Paris Lynching of Henry Smith
The public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 8, 2023
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The Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory
The Choctaw Nation was the first of the "five civilized tribes" to face removal into Indian Territory.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 6, 2023
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Cullen Baker, Reconstruction-Era Mass Murderer in the Red River Valley
Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 6, 2023
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Some Freedmen's Bureau Records from the Red River Valley
Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 6, 2023
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Shreveport in the Green Book
Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 5, 2023
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End of the Trail: The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws
The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws ended at a little place called Ultima Thule, and the beginning of their new home was Eagletown.
Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 4, 2023
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Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma: Oil Boom and Rosenwald School
Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.
Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 31, 2023
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The Drowned Town of Preston, aka Coffee's Trading Post
Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.
Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 29, 2023
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Union Strategy in Indian Territory, Annotated
Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.
Robin Cole-Jett
Aug 15, 2023
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Thousand-Word Photograph: Texans Squatting in Indian Territory
The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.
Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 9, 2023
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