The Lantern Near the Tidal Road
Source-Based Retelling. A Harriet Tubman learning tale about landscape, freedom routes, secrecy, and the limits of route memory.
Source-Based Retelling
The Pension Witness at the Kitchen Table
Source-Based Retelling. A military pension tale about witness statements, memory, service, and the difference between clue and certificate.
The Castillo Wall and the Unfinished Name
Source-Based Retelling. A St. Augustine tale about fortress labor, Black presence, Spanish records, and the limits of public labels.
The Basket Road Through the Sea Islands
Source-Based Retelling. A Gullah Geechee corridor tale about craft, memory, language, and source-specific cultural continuity.
The Freedmen’s Bureau Desk Lamp
Source-Based Retelling. A Reconstruction tale about field-office records, labor contracts, schools, complaints, and evidence lanes.
The Porch Voice in the WPA Notebook
Source-Based Retelling. A careful tale about WPA narratives, interviewer power, memory, dialect transcription, and reader responsibility.
The Rosenwald School Bell
Source-Based Retelling. A school-history tale about education records, local memory, and what a building can and cannot prove.
The Green Book Room Key
Source-Based Retelling. A travel-history tale about safe lodging, Black mobility, directories, and careful place claims.
The Watch at Fort Mose
Source-Based Retelling. A Fort Mose learning tale about refuge, militia duty, and the discipline of naming what the records can support.
Hurston Turns the Recorder Toward Florida
Source-Based Retelling. A teaching tale rooted in Zora Neale Hurston, Florida folklore collection, and the ethics of listening.