Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Florida, and parts of Louisiana"—is a "socio-cultural model" that allows her to explore the historical complexities of an increasingly multiethnic space and not "some projection backward in time of what...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...several mutually antagonistic groups into the Waxhaw congregation, and he established and ministered at times to some twelve other churches in the region. It was his death, however, that most...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...he demands it. One thing I've noticed: he makes a lot of phone calls. Even when he could do a task alone with less effort, he takes time to involve...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...a relatively short time, suggesting that Nancy Miller Benson chose not to take this as an opportunity to display fine handwork. She may have only had a short time to...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...major park to be authorized by the city, City Park was also the last to be built. Here’s the timeline: in 1858, the city received full title to this once-upon-a-time...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Besieged Terrain
...Almost all the big timber companies operating in the southern states at the time were northern. Having cut the forests in the northeast, they were looking for virgin stands. With...