Sharon Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3809147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stone Age archaeology of the Riet River dongas, Free State, South Africa
Recent research on the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa’s central interior underscores the pivotal role played by this region in the emergence and cultural evolution of African Homo sapiens. In the central interior, specifically the Grassland and Savanna Biomes of South Africa’s Free State Province, the earliest southern African Homo sapiens fossil originates from the site of Florisbad. Despite this, archaeological data remain sparse, hinderin…
“Hidden in Plain Sight”
The following articles explore the difference between something “hidden” and something “hidden in plain sight.” Each article addresses this theme by referring to historians’ and curators’ recent treatment of slavery at the President’s House, the Cliveden historic site, and the University of Pennsylvania, all in Philadelphia, as well as sites across the Commonwealth. They point toward the overall social and political implications of bringing Ameri…
What Happened, and What Did Not, at the President’s House on Independence Mall
Briefly summarizing the history of George and Martha Washington holding enslaved people in the capital of the “new nation, conceived in liberty,” the article explores the long public and scholarly struggle to bring this story to the public on the original site of the President’s House in Philadelphia. Examining the coalition of activists involved, the author narrates official resistance to interpreting slavery at the site and offers published sou…
Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province
Localities in the interior of South Africa, such as Taung and Vaal River sites, were intensively researched after hominins were discovered (Péringuey, 1911; Dart, 1925a; Goodwin, 1928), but then neglected for the fossil-rich, dolomitic breccia sites in Gauteng Province (e.g., Cooke, 1963, 1967; Vrba, 1976; Brain, 1981, Brain and Sillen, 1988; Bamford, 1999; Pickering and Kramers, 2010; Herries and Shaw, 2011; Reynolds et al., 2011; Lee-Thorp and …
The Battles of Germantown
When David W. Young declares that doing public history effectively is hard work, he knows whereof he speaks. Long engaged both professionally and personally in the Germantown neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia, Young counts as one of the people doing that hard work. Though his book only rarely moves out of the 3.3 square miles of Germantown, his experiences there and the insights he develops from them bear on public history practice far more …
Skeletal allometries in the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)
Variation in Middle Stone Age mandibular molar enamel-dentine junction topography at Klasies River Main Site assessed by diffeomorphic surface matching
Archeology, Environment, and Chronology of the Early Middle Stone Age Component of Wonderwerk Cave
Structural density of the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) shell and its implications for taphonomic research
Exhibitions
Exhibition Review Essays The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. After Darkness: Social Impact and Art Institutions Exhibition Reviews Behind the Red Door: A Vision of the Erotic in Costa Rican Art, The Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José “A Positive Future in Classical Antiquities”: Teece Museum, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination: The Metropolitan Mu…
Bone mineral density in the leopard tortoise
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
The Oldowan and Early Acheulean Mammalian Fauna of Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
Who Owns America's Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
Exhibit Review
Book Review| November 01 2013 Exhibit Review: On The Edge of Battle: Chester County in the Civil War On The Edge of Battle: Chester County in the Civil War. Chester County Historical Society, . Ellen Endslow, Curator; Suzanne Gaadt, Designer. October 18, 2012–September 28, 2013. Sharon Ann Holt Sharon Ann Holt 1Independent Historian, Trenton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian…
The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
History Keeps Bethlehem Steel from Going off the Rails
This article chronicles an on-going effort of local community and cultural groups to preserve and interpret the abandoned historic buildings of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Advocates for the site, with help from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH), are working with private developers to adapt and re-use the site. Outlining the complex process of persuading city of.cials and developers of the …
A Way Out of No Way
Making Freedom Pay
Journal Article Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865–1900. By Sharon Ann Holt. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxvi, 188 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8203-2170-2.) Get access Steven Hahn Steven Hahn Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10…
Making Freedom Pay
Praying for Sheetrock
The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
Archeology, Environment, and Chronology of the Early Middle Stone Age Component of Wonderwerk Cave
The Oldowan and Early Acheulean Mammalian Fauna of Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
Making Freedom Pay
Journal Article Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865–1900. By Sharon Ann Holt. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxvi, 188 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8203-2170-2.) Get access Steven Hahn Steven Hahn Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10…
Variation in Middle Stone Age mandibular molar enamel-dentine junction topography at Klasies River Main Site assessed by diffeomorphic surface matching
Who Owns America's Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
Making Freedom Pay
Making Freedom Pay
Praying for Sheetrock
Making Freedom Pay
Journal Article Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865–1900. By Sharon Ann Holt. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxvi, 188 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8203-2170-2.) Get access Steven Hahn Steven Hahn Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10…
A Way Out of No Way
History Keeps Bethlehem Steel from Going off the Rails
This article chronicles an on-going effort of local community and cultural groups to preserve and interpret the abandoned historic buildings of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Advocates for the site, with help from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH), are working with private developers to adapt and re-use the site. Outlining the complex process of persuading city of.cials and developers of the …
The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
Exhibit Review
Book Review| November 01 2013 Exhibit Review: On The Edge of Battle: Chester County in the Civil War On The Edge of Battle: Chester County in the Civil War. Chester County Historical Society, . Ellen Endslow, Curator; Suzanne Gaadt, Designer. October 18, 2012–September 28, 2013. Sharon Ann Holt Sharon Ann Holt 1Independent Historian, Trenton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian…
Who Owns America's Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
The Oldowan and Early Acheulean Mammalian Fauna of Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
Exhibitions
Exhibition Review Essays The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. After Darkness: Social Impact and Art Institutions Exhibition Reviews Behind the Red Door: A Vision of the Erotic in Costa Rican Art, The Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José “A Positive Future in Classical Antiquities”: Teece Museum, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination: The Metropolitan Mu…
Bone mineral density in the leopard tortoise
Structural density of the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) shell and its implications for taphonomic research
Archeology, Environment, and Chronology of the Early Middle Stone Age Component of Wonderwerk Cave
Variation in Middle Stone Age mandibular molar enamel-dentine junction topography at Klasies River Main Site assessed by diffeomorphic surface matching
Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province
Localities in the interior of South Africa, such as Taung and Vaal River sites, were intensively researched after hominins were discovered (Péringuey, 1911; Dart, 1925a; Goodwin, 1928), but then neglected for the fossil-rich, dolomitic breccia sites in Gauteng Province (e.g., Cooke, 1963, 1967; Vrba, 1976; Brain, 1981, Brain and Sillen, 1988; Bamford, 1999; Pickering and Kramers, 2010; Herries and Shaw, 2011; Reynolds et al., 2011; Lee-Thorp and …
The Battles of Germantown
When David W. Young declares that doing public history effectively is hard work, he knows whereof he speaks. Long engaged both professionally and personally in the Germantown neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia, Young counts as one of the people doing that hard work. Though his book only rarely moves out of the 3.3 square miles of Germantown, his experiences there and the insights he develops from them bear on public history practice far more …
Skeletal allometries in the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)
Stone Age archaeology of the Riet River dongas, Free State, South Africa
Recent research on the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa’s central interior underscores the pivotal role played by this region in the emergence and cultural evolution of African Homo sapiens. In the central interior, specifically the Grassland and Savanna Biomes of South Africa’s Free State Province, the earliest southern African Homo sapiens fossil originates from the site of Florisbad. Despite this, archaeological data remain sparse, hinderin…
“Hidden in Plain Sight”
The following articles explore the difference between something “hidden” and something “hidden in plain sight.” Each article addresses this theme by referring to historians’ and curators’ recent treatment of slavery at the President’s House, the Cliveden historic site, and the University of Pennsylvania, all in Philadelphia, as well as sites across the Commonwealth. They point toward the overall social and political implications of bringing Ameri…
What Happened, and What Did Not, at the President’s House on Independence Mall
Briefly summarizing the history of George and Martha Washington holding enslaved people in the capital of the “new nation, conceived in liberty,” the article explores the long public and scholarly struggle to bring this story to the public on the original site of the President’s House in Philadelphia. Examining the coalition of activists involved, the author narrates official resistance to interpreting slavery at the site and offers published sou…
Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Cave (6 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geology (5 works)