THE VANDERBILT HISTORICAL REVIEW

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the life and writings of revolutionary poet Margaretta Faugeres (1771-1801). As a child, her life was radically altered by the events of the American Revolution. As an adult, Faugeres used the memory of destruction in the American and French Revolutions to express her political convictions concerning democracy, slavery, and women’s intellectual capabilities. Although she has received relatively little academic attention, Fauge

Nicholas Bunner – The chief force beyond internal US conflict in the nineteenth century, which repeatedly threatened the state of the Union and eventually drove the nation to civil war, was not the institution of slavery itself, not necessarily the question of whether or not persons could be owned and treated as chattel property or not. No, rather it was the question of that institution’s expansion, to the newly acquired territories which were continually added to the ever-gr

Kathryn Fuselier, Laura Grove, Janna Adelstein – The editors of the Vanderbilt Historical Review have been on several field trips to places where the stories of slavery have been memorialized. Both the Hermitage and the Carnton Plantation/Carter House are fascinating, yet also distinct, in how they retell the past. Our trips to these locations were not only fun, but also allowed us to understand how history is portrayed and remembered through these sites. In doing so, we hope

Robert Yee and Kathryn Fuselier – This article was written in collaboration with the Vanderbilt Political Review. For the first essay in this series, click here. A slew of recent news agencies recently investigated the case of the formerly named Confederate Memorial Hall at Vanderbilt University. The building, now a freshman dormitory, had been named by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1935 to honor the individuals who fought for the South in the Civil War. While th

Laura Grove – The colonies forming British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were each founded with their own set of specific aims. Some were established primarily for entrepreneurial endeavors, others for religious freedom and a chance at a new life. However, as colonists created more permanent settlements, all shared a similar goal of establishing an economically stable society. No settlement could persist if its people could not find a profitable in