Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...as a way to come to terms with this volatile and disorderly geography (7). As a means to maximize his personal power and the safety of his Florida town, Apalachicole,...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...to the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. The project is still in development so any overview I provide now has to be provisional. The project continues to expand, often in ways that...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. While the...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...going to have way too much work for myself and the few part time people I had found, so I went to a local chicken plant and talked to the...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...a Wal-Mart built on a strip mine bench, using each setting to highlight the ways in which commerce and consumption are transforming the mountain landscape. Donald R. Rasmussen says, "The...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
Palomares Bajo
...99. The New York Times Madrid correspondent, Tad Szulc, eventually motored down to Palomares, retreading some tired city clichés along the way. Can't get there from here. Cut off. "Best...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Slave was named the best drama of the year by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Having been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, expect the film...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...