A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...a series of case studies Villanueva makes clear that violence against Mexicans in Texas must be understood in a borderlands context, with events in one country affecting race relations in...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (University of Illinois Press, 2008), an important radio program from Chicago that was instrumental in the development of country music. Berry is...
A Mess of Poke
...with us in the northeast Georgia mountains when I was in my early teens. She would take a grocery sack on her walks along the country roads near our house...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...dealt frankly with slavery and race. All across the country, the commissions and other organizations have been working to acknowledge the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, determined to do...
Mapping Souths
...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...used to defend the violence, and the tragic resonance of the violence. Pieced together, these local studies provide a mosaic that illustrates the tragedy of lynching in this country. Up...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...life, Cash teamed with producer Rick Rubin for a series of critically-acclaimed studio albums. Along with new compositions and classic country interpretations, Rubin encouraged Cash to take up songs by...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...American History at Emory University, specializing in southern history since Reconstruction. He is the author of Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill & Wang, 2012) and In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...western borders, prior to the Civil War. South Carolina's northwestern border in 1818 encompassed terrain formerly identified as "Cherokees Country" in the map from 1779. John Pinkerton, "United States of...