A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...private schools. At least twenty, including most in the South, have adopted or are on a path to enact legislation making state-funded “Educational Savings Accounts” (ESAs)—the newest type of voucher...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004), 2. John Steuart Curry's 1941 mural, Tragic Prelude, embodies the Free State narrative. At thirty-one feet by eleven-and-a-half feet, it hangs in east wing of...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Chinese-American historian who was present at this reunion, the sudden appearance of an African American in their midst hit a nerve. While Ethridge was a welcome presence for most on...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...ancestry. Because I'm from East Harlem, a US citizen, and was perceived as having assimilated to mainstream American culture, my closest Hispanic informants often referred to me as a Nuyorican...
Cajun South Louisiana
...farmers, grew sugar on farms east of the Atchafalaya River. Lafayette Parish was the center of a cotton culture in the 1850s, with prairie counties west of there dominated by...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...cuts off the leg of a slave boy, and a slave woman sucks the cut-off leg. A Confederate soldier prepares for battle by sucking a slave woman's breast. A slave...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...not The Loving Story; it is Loving. Welcome to Virginia: Virginia is for Lovers. Road sign near rest stop, Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...resources. Welcome page for the data entry site featuring a hand-drawn map of Jefferson. Screenshot by Southern Spaces, 2014. Courtesy of Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. John Padgett, who is also a...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...predominantly agricultural. In the wetlands and wildlife refuges to the east of Claxton, between Claxton and Savannah, the MCWA's Technical Development Branch laboratory (along with the US Fish and Wildlife...