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...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...Katrina have appeared since the event. Most were brief glances at some fragment of that immense disaster rather than rich, in-depth portraits of it, and many rode the crest of...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...and decline suggested by the ashes scattered below it, emanates an otherworldly power. Upon close examination of the model building, it is apparent that the roof of the church can...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...be taken up when useful, laid aside when not. Nonetheless, Osburn's approach underscores how the Mississippi Choctaws had an active hand in determining their future. Carefully researched and clearly written,...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker,...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...that has been approved elsewhere. Please follow the SoQ guidelines, which are available online. For consideration for this special issue, please submit original manuscripts by November 1, 2014. Email submissions...
The Dirt Eaters
...it will dis appear al together." Miss Fannie Glass Of Creuger, Miss.: "I wish I had some dirt right now." Her smile famili ar as the smell of dirt. ...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...5,000 in Appomattox in 1965, only months before President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. The Civil War centennial seemed irrelevant by the time it limped...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...appear on the map as dense blue dots surrounded by rings of pink. The map illustrates how elections are decided on an urban/suburban basis, as Lydia DePillis argued in The...