186:, oral histories, and archaeological excavations of the domestic sites of coal miners and laborers in the coal patch towns of northeastern Pennsylvania are the emphasis of the Anthracite Heritage Project. Since 2015, archaeology, preservation, and heritage research has been conducted at Eckley Miners' Village, which is overseen by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. This research focuses on issues related to labor, class, and historic and contemporary immigration. Work continues with the Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton, PA, to connect anthracite heritage with the established and newest immigrants to the region. In 2023 he worked with others to develop a web-based exhibition, “We Are Anthracite” (
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Archaeology in Annapolis project and earned his Ph.D. in 1987, examining archaeological materials, probate inventories, and courtesy/etiquette guidebooks. His dissertation examines the development of personal discipline and its relationship to the advent of the Industrial
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as an archaeologist, and he was part of a large program related to the restoration of Lower Town
Harpers Ferry. His extensive work at Harpers Ferry delves into issues of class and labor and has resulted in several books and articles. In 1996, Shackel came to the University of Maryland, where he
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1996 Culture Change and The New
Technology: An Archaeology of The Early American Industrial Era. Plenum Publishing Corp, New York, NY; 2000 Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York City,
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1992 Post–Processual
Approaches to Meanings and Uses of Material Culture (with Barbara J. Little). In Meanings and Uses of Material Culture, edited by Barbara J. Little and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology 26(3):
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Shackel, Paul A. 2010 Remembering New
Philadelphia. In New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier, edited by Christopher Fennel and Terrance Martin, and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology,
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Shackel to partner with UI and ISM to train undergraduates in archaeology and explore issues of race, class, and ethnicity on the Illinois western frontier. New Philadelphia was placed on the
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in 1836. In the 1860s, the railroad bypassed New
Philadelphia, and by the 1920s, it was virtually abandoned. In 2002 and 2003, the University of Maryland partnered with the Illinois State Museum (ISM),
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2018 "Immigration
Heritage in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania." Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage 5(2):101-113. doi.org/10.1080/20518196.2017.1385947
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Structural Violence: Epigenetics and the Legacy of Anthracite Coal. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. doi.org/10.1007/s10761-017-0451-0
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2016 The Meaning of Place in the Anthracite Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. International Journal of Heritage Studies 22(3): 200-213. doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2015.1114009
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2012 "The Gilded Age Wasn’t So Gilded in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (with Michael Roller)." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(4): 761-775.
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Shackel, Paul A. 1993 Personal Discipline And Material Culture: An Archaeology of Annapolis, Maryland, 1695-1870. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.
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2006 The Gilded Age: An Archaeology of Working-Class Communities (with Matthew Palus). American Anthropologist 108(4): 828-841.
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