Reckoning with Enslavement
...to change what happened long ago, but we can change the way we understand what happened and what it means to us in the present.3A central aspect of the approach...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Will Percy—was that an ongoing and widely audible cultural discussion had taken root. A new vocabulary was in place. What in the nineteenth century was "the love that dare not...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and regret, knowing that the case that made them famous was a sham, muster their lives towards the righting of a single wrong. Rust and Marty know that this righting...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...will double the size of the collections and will provide increased access to HathiTrust's nearly eleven million volumes. In addition, HathiTrust metadata records will be freely available under a Creative Commons license....
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Campbells returned to the Deep South, where he served until the fall of 1954 as pastor of a church in Taylor, Louisiana. That time coincided with the run-up to what...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...of feels like Luke Skywalker—that I fight for the good guys, that I represent tribes—I hope that continues. I hope that various levels of government get to the point where...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...we see instead a process that was directed both from within the region and without and that reconfigured the physical landscape, obliterated old commercial hierarchies, and spawned sweeping environmental changes....
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...it is here that we learn the way that mental institutions operated in the wake of slavery. Despite Galt's insistence on 'intermingling,' Gonaver shows that Black patients in Virginia's asylums...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...identify others. More than thirty attended that first meeting. Since its inception, the purpose of the club has been to promote interest in street-rodding activities, to create fellowship, and to...