Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall. Copyright © 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. Photographs © 2012 by Beth Maynor Young. Used by...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...accommodations that he had seen in Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, and elsewhere.1"A Step Backward," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 19, 1891, 98. Built and maintained by the railroads, colored waiting rooms...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...ancestry between Oxford's present-day African American residents and the Creek Freedmen of Oklahoma, many local Oxford Black elders have felt a deep sense of moral kinship with the Freedmen. J.P....
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...that I didn’t even know were in the paper. This technique uncovered the relationship between Confederate nationalism and patriotism, and helped me to distinguish between the two. Patriotic and nationalistic...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...staged a march commemorating the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero four years earlier. Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...LGBTQ individuals, and despite numerous legal challenges and actions by states and cities banning official publicly funded travel to Mississippi, the law remains in effect.1The states banning publicly funded travel...
Good-Bye to All That?
...vote, losing to a widely disliked Republican opponent who had led the GOP's attack on public education in North Carolina. In her 2008 election, Hagan had lost to Elizabeth Dole...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...face not just in the trailer park, but elsewhere in Mississippi and when they travel. When Jheri tells about her varied job history, it's implicit that after she transitioned, she...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...