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Monday, January 26, 2015

Some Digital History

A digital reconstruction of Washington, D.C. in 1814


The Junto is doing a week long roundtable review of Richard S. Dunn's A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia


And here is the website that goes with the book

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