Bryan E Norwood
@bryannorwood.bsky.social
Architectural historian. US and Atlantic World in the long nineteenth century. Views my own
You may have already come across this one, but if not it’s a recent and growing resource: blackcraftspeople.org
BCDA
blackcraftspeople.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You may have already come across this one, but if not it’s a recent and growing resource: blackcraftspeople.org
Bishir’s older article Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina is also really good www.jstor.org/stable/23518...
Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina on JSTOR
Catherine W. Bishir, Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina, The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (October 1984), pp. 423-461
www.jstor.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Bishir’s older article Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina is also really good www.jstor.org/stable/23518...
And Catherine Bishir’s Crafting Lives uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Crafting Lives | Catherine W. Bishir | University of North Carolina Press
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, s...
uncpress.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
And Catherine Bishir’s Crafting Lives uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Tara Dudley’s Building Antebellum New Orleans utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328552/
Building Antebellum New Orleans
2024 Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction, ...
utpress.utexas.edu
July 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tara Dudley’s Building Antebellum New Orleans utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328552/