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Despite originated as a dispute-settling boundary between two states, the Mason-Dixon Line would go on to form a key dividing line in the pre-Civil War period. The extended Mason-Dixon Line ...
Over time, the Mason-Dixon Line, which marked the Pennsylvania-Maryland ... a long-contested border between British territories in America. Tocqueville’s restless spirit, a world-changing ...
Exploring White Clay Creek Park, which is near Newark, Delaware, about an hour and 45 minute drive from our home in Annapolis ...
the Mason-Dixon Line became as corporeal to the cultural outcomes of America as the country’s physical landscape. As the mathematically inclined duo lay on the ground in the middle of winter ...
and founder of The Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership, says Charles Mason (an astronomer) and Jeremiah Dixon (a surveyor) introduced surveying techniques to North America that were used to ...
Her book, South to America, reflects on the region's history and traces the steps of an enslaved ancestor. "The South in some ways becomes the repository for the nation's sins, right?" she says.
By bringing together professional artists who worked below the Mason-Dixon Line (exempting Florida ... of Southern history”: the fact that, as America dominated the global stage from the ...
The resulting Mason-Dixon line subsequently divided the “free” North from the slave states of the South. That is another story, though. This one is set in a world where the mechanical is still ...
The 19th century Mason-Dixon Line marked the boundary between slave states in the South and free states in the North. With the Friday ruling overturning Roe V. Wade, the six conservative justices ...
Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, has received the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the ...