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Was a mustard pot used for exactly what it sounds like?

Was a mustard pot used for exactly what it sounds like?

Photo 1: Mid-18th Century White Salt-Glazed Stoneware Mustard Pot Recovered from a Site in New Castle County, Delaware (Photo courtesy of Hunter Research, Inc.). By Sammy Lovette A white, salt-glazed, stoneware mustard pot dating to the eighteenth century was...

Uncovering African American Lives in Civil War Records

Uncovering African American Lives in Civil War Records

Figure 1: A U.S. Army impressment labor roll for enslaved workers at Camp Nelson, a military base in central Kentucky (NARA 1864). By Cameron Boutin The Civil War is an extensively documented conflict, with a wide range of reports, letters, diaries, and other records...

A Day in The Life of an Artifact

A Day in The Life of an Artifact

Figure 1: Artifacts from the field are brought to the lab and placed in a crate to be checked in. By Sammy Lovette and Kat Baganski Have you ever thought about the journey artifacts take after they have been discovered by archaeologists in the field? Once they get to...

Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Listening?

Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Listening?

Figure 1: Horse-Drawn Sleigh Showing a Strap of Bells (Nowell 1906). By Sammy Lovette The prominent mention of bells, particularly sleigh bells, in popular Christmas movies and music is astounding. Due to their close association with Christmas and winter, the horse...

Worth a Pretty (Half) Penny

Worth a Pretty (Half) Penny

By Kat Baganski In 2006, in advance of construction of a new Marriott hotel in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dovetail Cultural Resource Group completed cultural resources investigations prior to construction and uncovered traces of a much earlier hotel, the...

Enduring Wet Weather in the Civil War

Enduring Wet Weather in the Civil War

By Cameron Boutin This blog is by Dovetail Historian Cameron Boutin, who is sharing just some of his fascinating dissertation research on soldiers during the Civil War. United States (U.S.) and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War experienced the pressures of weather...

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