Archive - The World of James McCune Smith

Madison County Historical Society, Hamilton College, and Peterboro

After my second day scouring folders at the Sydney Howard Gay papers at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library that I had run out of time…

Jun 3 •

May 2025

St Philip's Site on Mulberry Street and Cypress Hills Cemetery

It’s 6:30am in New York City, and I’m writing in my room on the 19th floor of the Holiday Inn on Nassau Street, one block south from where the teenaged…

May 29 •

At St Philip's Episcopal Church

I spent much of my first day of my New York research trip not in the archives, but at St Philip’s Episcopal Church, where James McCune Smith had been a…

May 28 •

Going to New York!

...on a JMS research trip

May 22 •

‘Some Pumpkins’

James McCune Smith Was One Confident Young Man

May 8 •

April 2025

February 2024

New Journal Article

Association of Ladies: Emeline Bastien, Fanny Tompkins, and Leadership in the African American Community of New York City, 1810–1885

Feb 6, 2024 •

November 2023

Putting things on pause...

I need to suspend writing for The Transatlantic World of James McCune Smith for a while

Nov 14, 2023 •

September 2023

August 2023

Sites Associated with James McCune Smith and Family in New York City #5

The House on North Moore Street

Aug 20, 2023 •

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