Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Shand, and I had a pick-your-own at that point. Then I hired a woman, who was likely in her seventies, and she came with her two grandchildren, and they helped...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...concerns an elite light-skinned woman who discovers that she is a slave at the time of her father's death. Here, Warren rewrites the story of the "tragic mulatta" told in...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Southern history. See Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985) for an interpretation that stresses...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
..."contain criminal inspiration for four or five youths." To solidify the link between marijuana use and crime, Maureau affirmed that a man "arrested recently for the murder of a woman...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...T. Buford, First Lieutenant Independent Scouts C.S.A. Illustrations from The Woman in Battle (1876). Courtesy of Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Apple and Ashes's final...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...authority. In this image the woman under arrest is doing all she can to wrestle free, including attempting to bite one of three policemen. Berger explains that this image was...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...grid is a photograph of a young, blonde-haired woman in sunglasses, head hanging out of a demolition derby car at the Crossville Raceway in Cumberland County. While this image may...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...could have spawned thousands of offspring, and why a black woman would challenge the veracity of their genealogy, we need to return to the mountain wedding in 1843, to the...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...man John over 50, $225 Negro man Daniel 33, $410 Ned, 30, $500 Morris (?) 24, $600 George? (?) 14, $350 Sandy, 7, $200 Joseph very old, $100 Woman Celia...
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...