I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
I find joy in the cemetery trees. Their roots are in our hearts. In their leaves the soul of another century is in ascension. I hear the rustling of their...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...engagement with South Carolina's multicultural and multinational history, from the colonial period to the twentieth century civil rights movement. Mary Moultrie with Walter Reuther and Ralph Abernathy, Charleston, South Carolina, 1969....
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...twentieth century, the neighborhood was predominantly white working- and middle class, but as the housing stock aged in the late 1980s, more African American families gained access. Creekridge Park also...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...in the United States in the twentieth century, much of Faulkner's work centered on the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. Sotheby's announced on March 28, 2013 that the prolific author's Nobel Prize...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...slavery's status in the region for the remainder of the eighteenth century and well beyond. Much of this had to do with differing systems of exploiting African American labor in...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...1700s. What would we be without James Audubon's nineteenth-century visual and literary records of where he went, what he experienced, and what he saw. Or what about Frederick Law Olmsted's...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...is nuanced and complicated. In the early twentieth century many, if not most, in forestry and land management regarded fire as an unmitigated enemy of forests. Famous anti-fire campaigns featured...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...