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- ↑ James Janega, "Long-buried story of black America: Archeologists provide concrete details about African-American land speculators and utopian pioneers in the Midwest", Chicago Tribune.com, 8 June 2008, accessed 1 June 2009
- ↑ Juliet E.K. Walker, “New Philadelphia” Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine , Center for Heritage Resource Studies, University of Maryland, 2006, accessed 1 June 2009
- ↑ John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology, 2009 - Christopher C. Fennell Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine , Society for Historical Archaeology, accessed 1 June 2009
- ↑ Christopher C. Fennell, Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World, University Press of Florida
