A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...The elders knew that nearly all Muscogee (Creek) had been forced off the local lands around the time of the founding of Newton County, traveling to Alabama and points west,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of White Power, Black Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (New...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...characterization of New Orleans as "an inevitable city on an impossible site."10Lewis, New Orleans. Lewis contends that New Orleans has to exist given its prime location at the confluence of...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). The unearthing of new archaeological information, as...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...United States.6"Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis," CDC, February 23, 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2016/croi-press-release-risk.html; "CDC Fact Sheet: Today's HIV/AIDS Epidemic," August 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/todaysepidemic-508.pdf; Claire Galofaro, "Appalachia Bracing for HIV," U.S. News & World...
Brushes with War
...1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and three recent books on black...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York, The New Press, 2020). deals with the first hundred years of Georgia's Central State Hospital in...