Illinois Archaeology

Fever River Research 

PO Box 5234

Springfield, Illinois

 

 

Click on the following links for access to a range of papers presented by staff of Fever River Research.

Giving Voice to the Forgotten Victims of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot:  The Bessie Black StoryInternational Society of Landscape, Place and Material Culture, Tulsa, Oklahoma (October 2021)

UPDATE:  The Archaeology of Racial Hatred.  Three papers presented at the 23rd Annual Conferene on Illinois History,  Springfield, Illinois (October 2021):



Burned From Memory:  A Textile Analysis of an African-American Household During the Springfield Race Riot of 1908 (May 2021) [presented at the 2021 Virtual Symposium, Costume Society of America, with Carmen Keist (Bradley University)]



National Register of Historic Places Thematic Survey of Springfield's African American Community (PowerPoint Presentation; Lincoln Library, February 2019)


The 1908 Springfield Race Riot: Current and Future Research (PowerPoint presentation presented at the Lincoln-Douglas Freedom Fund Banquet, Springfield Chapter, NAACP; 10 February 2019)


"LEST WE FORGET": The Proposed 1908 Springfield Race Riot Memorial


Survey of the Central East Neighborhood, Springfield, Illinois (with historic context of African American settlement in Springfield) (Sangamon County)(2018)


The Hunziker Winery Site, Rural Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois (2018)


In the Wake of the Mob: An Illustrated Story of Riot, Ruin, and Rage (1909)


The Great Springfield Race War, 1908


The Archaeology of Racial Hatred: The Springfield Race Riot of August 1908 (Two papers presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, Illinois (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, October 2017):  


Paper 1: History and Context 

Paper 2: Results of Archaeological Investigations


The Archaeology of Racial Hatred: The Springfield Race Riot of August 1908 (2017)


The 1908 Springfield Race Riot: Burned Building Locations and Historic Photographic Views (2016)


Edward Chipman Public Library, Momence:  National Register Nomination (2016)


Edward Chipman Public Library, Momence: Powerpoint Presentation (2016)


"Privies, Privies, Everywhere:" An Historical Archaeologist Ponders Three Decades of Privy Excavations in Illinois (2015)


In Search of the 1836 McLean County Courthouse: Archaeological Investigations on the Public Square, Bloomington, Illinois (2015)


Archaeology, the Civil War, and Springfield, Illinois (2014)


German Visibility in the Archaeological Record of Springfield, Illinois:  The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Archaeological Project (2013)


An Historical Archaeologist's View of Early Illinois Foodways: Some Initial Ramblings by a Lover of Food (2009)


The Archaeology of Early Springfield, Illinois:  The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Project (2009)


Enos Park Neighborhood (2009)


An Archaeological and Architectural Assessment of the Lincoln Log Cabin, Rural Macon County, Illinois (2009)


Archaeological Mitigation of the 78th Street Site (11S821): A Look at Initial Settlement Period Sites in Illinois (2007)


Water Procurement in Nineteenth Century Illinois: A View from the Archaeological Record (2003)


Searching For the Slaves' Quarters: Archaeology  at the Menard house State Historic Site, Randolph County, Illinois (2005) [Contract Report; short version]


Searching For the Slaves' Quarters: Archaeological Investigations at the Menard State Historic Site, Randolph County, Illinois (1999) [Contract Report; long version]