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Sources referenced

Publications by Aaron Astor

Aaron Astor, Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-1872 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012). Released in paperback, February 2017.

——, The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau (Charleston: The History Press, 2015).

Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, editors, Slavery: Interpreting American History (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021).

Other sources mentioned during episode

Washington’s Farewell Address

George Washington, “Farewell Address, 19 September 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0440-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 703–722.]

Washington writes in this speech:

“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with20 perfect good faith. Here let us stop.”

Other sources mentioned in the interview

Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1966).

Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, revised edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Select sources

The Salmon Clause

•  Valentine Green, The History and Antiquities of the City of Worcester, Vol. II (London: W. Blmer and Co., 1796), 15, fn. 2.
•  Taylor Potts, Sunderland: A History of the Town, Port, Trade and Commerce (Sunderland, England: B. Williams & Co., 1892), 82–84. At https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sunderland/2Z8xAAAAMAAJ
• Thomas Nadauld Brushfield, The Salmon Clause in the Indentures of Apprentices (Chester: G.R. Griffith, 1897). At https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Salmon_Clause_in_the_Indentures_of_A/yAwsAAAAYAAJ
• Book review of J.W. Jones, The Salmon by F. T. K. Pentelow in Science Progress, 47, no. 188 (1959): 814–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43417321.

Paleography

• See, for example Harvard University, Geoffrey Chaucer Website, “How to Read Medieval Handwriting (Paleography)” at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/how-read-medieval-handwriting-paleography, accessed 25 Jun., 2024.

London’s Population

• “The Evolution of London: The City’s Near 2000 Year History Mapped,” The Guardian, 15 May., 2014 at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/15/the-evolution-of-london-the-citys-near-2000-year-history-mapped

The Thames Cleanup in the 20th century & beyond

•  Sylvia Tunstall, “Public Perceptions of the Environmental Changes to the Thames Estuary in London, U.K,” Journal of Coastal Research 16, no. 2 (2000): 273. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300035.
• Rautanen, sanna-leena, antero luonsi, henry nygård, heikki s. vuorinen, and riikka p. rajala. “Sanitation, Water and Health.” Environment and History 16, no. 2 (2010): 173–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20723775.
•  For a comparative chart of British cities’ acid concentrations in water, you can read Smith’s original report on Google Books: Robert Angus Smith, Air and Rain: The Beginnings of A Chemical Climatology (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872), 332.
• Veronica Edmonds-Brown, “From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years,” published 21 Apr., 2022, in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/from-biologically-dead-to-chart-toppingly-clean-how-the-thames-made-an-extraordinary-recovery-over-60-years-180895, accessed 26 Jun., 2024.