Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Franciscans for causing unrest. The Franciscans gestured towards the abusive policies of the colonial government. And the Timicuas highlighted their dissatisfaction with "having to serve as cargadores," carrying food and...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
Mandeville Thum, Mouth of the Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Introduction Geologically, Mammoth Cave is a network of underground caverns in central Kentucky believed to be the world's largest cave...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
..."when currents are changed by these canals and dredgings are placed along the sides of the canal, in many cases currents are stopped entirely … causing ... changes in the...
Palomares Bajo
...Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, edited by Udo J. Hebel and Christoph Wagner (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2011), 316. Through my own camera lens,...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...the local militia married Rosa Miller Benson, age twenty-seven. Rosa came from a locally prominent family in the same community. Her grandfather, Robert Benson, migrated to Greenville County, South Carolina,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...hero carried all the former slave states but only a single northern state, New Jersey, in his presidential lost cause.67Charles W. Calhoun, From the Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail:...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...size of a violation can make a violation go away—that whenever a disparity can be proven to be small, it can be considered no disparity at all. So, if a...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about immigration policy. One woman in Cary, North Carolina, who had never done anything like this before, gave me a check for two thousand dollars to carry to Don Candelario....