A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to Montgomery, Alabama, to join in the March to Selma. Upon learning of Mary's flight, Sibley called Martin Luther King and asked him the personal favor of having one of...
The Border South
...writers, and observers have tried to define the Border South and its relationship to the rest of the South. Historian William Freehling, for example, considers the border the "quasi South,"...
Encountering COVID
...odd time. The challenges we faced were very unusual. Luke, South Carolina Mask Wearer—November 2020 We have felt more discriminated against for wearing masks than being gay. And that's crazy....
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...complexity, and indigenous power rather than the inexorable westward march of European domination. For Dubcovsky this early South—"the composite societies who came to inhabit the colonies of South Carolina, Georgia,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...the poem's late-breaking racial politics. Second, the setting allows the poet-speaker to meet her fellow southern poets on hew own "native ground," as it were, in a contemporary, southern, majority-black...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in this march, many of them were fed up with the male domination of the GLF, symbolized by the omission of the word lesbian from the name of the group...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...challenges—from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds....
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...of the southern environment, such as falciparum malaria and yellow fever, as I and others have shown. Many parts of Weiner's picture will be familiar to students of southern and...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...