Articles
"Community Engagement Collaboration program announces nine inaugural awardees," MyVU News, March 25, 2024
"Unearthing history: The Rise and Fall of Nashville's Bass Street Community," Justin MacFarland, Fox 17 WZTV Nashville, February 9, 2024
"How a Battle Between Pirates and the British Navy Triggered the Spread of Chattel Slavery," Angela Sutton, Highbrow Magazine, December 2023
"Piracy & Power: Angela Sutton recounts a pivotal battle in the history of the Atlantic slave trade," Aram Goudsouzian, Chapter 16, November 2023Â
"New Book Examines How Pirates Tried to Sabotage the Growth of the Slave Trade," Peter Handel, Truthout, November 2023
"How a Battle Between Pirates and the British Navy Triggered the Spread of Chattel Slavery," Angela Sutton, LA Progressive, October 2023
"Mayor Cooper, Preservation Advocates Lauded For Steadfast Efforts to Protect Nashville's Fort Negley," Mary Koik, American Battlefield Trust News, May 2023
"NEH grant to help uncover history of lost historic Nashville neighborhood," Hershel Pollard, Research News VU, May 2023
"NEH Announces $35.63 Million for 258 Humanities Projects Nationwide," NEH Press Release, April 2023
"National Endowment for the Humanities Announces #35.63 Million in Grants," The New York Times, April 2023
"Developers Come Across Possible Pre-Civil War Remains in Nashville," Marissa Sulek, WSMV4, August 2022
"William Edmondson, Fort Negley, and Communities of Caring from Nashville's History," Betsy Phillips, Nashville Scene, July 2022
"Preserving Fort Negley's Past While Planning For Its Future," Khalil Ekulona, 90.3 WPLN Nashville, April 2022
"Building on Years of Archival Work to Uncover Nashville's Black History," Abby Lee Hood, Tennessee Lookout, January 2022
"Reconstructing a Lost Neighborhood: MTSU-Vanderbilt Collaboration Unearths African American History at Base of Fort Negley," Ann Marie Deer Owens, Vanderbilt Magazine, October 2021
"Vanderbilt Joins Peer Group Studying Legacies of Slavery and Racial Injustice," Vanderbilt University News, June 2021
"Nashville's First Post-Emancipation Free Black Neighborhood Honored with Ceremony and New Research," WPLN, Khalil Ekulona and Tony Gonzalez, October 2021
"Arts and Humanities Faculty Finding Grants Success with Support of RDS Team," Jenna Somers and Jane Hirtle, MyVU, April 2021
"Remembering Black Nashville at Fort Negley," Juliet Larkin-Gilmore and Kristina E. Lee, The Public Historian, November 2019
"Fortifying History: Vanderbilt Research Leads to UNESCO Designation for Nashville's Fort Negley," Lila Johnson, Vanderbilt University News, August 2019
"UNESCO adds Nashville's Fort Negley to its Slave Route Project," Kyren Harvey, The Tennessean, May 2019
"Fort Negley Receives International Recognition Thanks to the Work of Vanderbilt Scholars," Vanderbilt University News, May 2019
"Historic Fort Built By African Americans Receives International Recognition," Denieca Brown, Rolling Out, May 2019
"Fort Negley Added to UNESCO Slave Route Project," J.R. Lind, Nashville Scene, May 2019
"Fort Negley is a Common Link Between Black Nashvillians Past and Present," J. R. Lind, Nashville Scene, May 2019
"Nashville's Fort Negley Nominated as Globally Recognized Site for Slave History," Joey Garrison, The Tennessean, September 2017