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Review of: The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site’s Omitted Stories, by Andrew C. Ross
The Public historian, Vol.48(3), pp.162-164
08/2026
Web of Science ID: WOS:001838009000011
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The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site’s Omitted Stories , by Andrew C. Ross. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2024. xxxvii + 370 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; paperback, $27.95.
Excerpt - The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site’s Omitted Stories by Andrew C. Ross is an ambitious effort to rewrite local history through a detailed, well-researched exploration of the slaveholding Davies family of Shelby County, Tennessee. Ross states that his goal is to offer a “corrective history of the Davieses themselves” and it is certainly one he achieves (xxvi). In the preface, he lays out in detail how the Davies family history has been presented at Davies Manor (a historic house museum), by organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in the publications and preservation work of Ellen Davies-Rodgers, a Davies descendant. The rest of the text demonstrates how these representations are, or are not, reflected in the historical record.
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- Title
- Review of: The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site’s Omitted Stories, by Andrew C. Ross
- Publication Details
- The Public historian, Vol.48(3), pp.162-164
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publisher
- University of California Press Books Division; Santa Barbara
- Number of pages
- 3
- Copyright
- © University of California Press
- Identifiers
- WOS:001838009000011; 99381851905206600
- Academic Unit
- FPAN; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Anthropology
- Language
- English