Project Team

Co-Directors

Dreanna Belden

University of North Texas

Ray Thompson

Professor Emeritus, Salisbury University

 

Doctoral Researcher

Cat Williams

 

Former Student, Doctoral Research Assistants, and Interns

William Kelly

Bryce Parramore

Connor Resetar

Ann Evans

 

Advisory Board

Miles Barnes

Retired, former Director of the Eastern Shore Public Library

Annette Becker

Director, UNT Fashion Collection Doctoral candidate, History

Karen Cook-Bell

Bowie State University Professor of History and the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor

Carl Lounsbury

Retired, Senior Architectural Historian, Colonial Williamsburg

Warren Milteer Jr.

George Washington University, Asst. Professor of History

Arlisha Norwood

University of Maryland Eastern Shore Asst. Professor of History

William G. Thomas III

Montana State University, Dean, College of Letters & Science

Andrew J. Torget

University of North Texas, Assoc. Professor of History

 

Partners

Somerset County Historical Trust

The Somerset County Historical Trust serves as a county advisory organization under the Maryland Historical Trust. They participate in various state and federal preservation programs, advising and assisting local preservationists in individual projects. They serve as the fiscal agent for Voices of the Eastern Shore.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Libraries

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library holds more than 16 million objects including manuscripts, archival records, rare books, maps, broadsides, photographs, audio and video recordings, and more. The Collections are particularly robust in American and British literature, the history of Virginia and the southeastern United States, the history and archives of the University of Virginia, sporting books and manuscripts, World War I, bibliography and book arts. For this project, they’ve partnered with Voices of the Eastern Shore to provide access to the collection, Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families, 1759-1968.

Somerset County Historical Society

Established in 1965, the Somerset County Historical Society was created with a generous gift from Helen Watts Roberts. In 1996, the Society, in cooperation with Olde Princess Anne Days, supported the formation of Friends of Teackle Mansion, Inc., to raise money to restore the historic Teackle Mansion. In 2000, the Boards of Directors for the Society and for Olde Princess Anne Days, Inc. merged. The Somerset County Historical Society carved out an ambitious mission for its volunteer Board of Trustees and members: documenting and interpreting the past for residents and visitors, both young and old. The Somerset County Historical Society holds some letters and financial ledgers related to the Teackles, and these are currently in the workflow for future inclusion in the Voices project. Materials include: letters; a ledger of accounts dating from 1806-1808 for the historic Washington Inn & Tavern, located in Princess Anne; a legal document that lists two enslaved women removed from Virginia and moved into Somerset County, Maryland by Littleton D. Teackle; and the Teackle family bible.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. LOC holds two collections included in the project, the Littleton Dennis Teackle Papers collection, the Charles Nicoll Bancker Correspondence collection, as well as other letters and documents related to the project in its online collection.

Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance

The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance provides letters dating from 1786 to about 1825 from the Steele family who owned Handsell house. The majority of the materials date from 1814 into the 1820s. Handsell is an 18th-century plantation located in the Indiantown north of Vienna, Dorchester County, Maryland, and was purchased by the Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance in 2005.