Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photographs. No image became more iconic, no place more marked by photographs than Birmingham in the days of Bull Connor's hoses and dogs. Martin A. Berger's fine book, Freedom Now! Forgotten...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...by the health program of BRAC, a Bangladesh-based NGO. Bangladesh, the eighth-most populous country in the world (169.4 million people), is a developing country located in South Asia with a...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...and Lesbians in Cold War America (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012); Loftin, ed., Letters to ONE: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012). In one of...
Palomares Bajo
...successive US administrations, who from 1953 built and managed "joint" military installations across the country. The Morón base, near Seville, sent air tankers to refuel these planes returning to Goldsboro...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically “female” positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...in the 1970s between the South and rest of the country. It was as if there was an intellectual iron curtain at the Mason-Dixon line. Ideas like bioregionalism were probably...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...economic and social shifts wrought by the country’s World War II efforts: a depiction of the United States as a country defined by massive internal displacement and populated by what...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...by friends and colleagues around the country as they read the list of far-right legislation that has been coming out of Raleigh over the last six months. Is it as...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...light. I was headed to a religious service at Georgetown University that would acknowledge the trauma of a massive slave sale in 1838, a deal that shored up the finances...