Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...that she didn't know very much about what to order for gay men or lesbians. Barbara felt they knew exactly what they were doing: they were providing books for people...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...no misunderstanding about what this case means in regard to religion: states are now free to finance private schools that discriminate against students on the basis of students’ religions. As...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...black people the very rights or recognition of kinship—Indians were described as free people who could potentially be incorporated into the US national family, a process that in turn mandated that...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...I said with emphasis, "she's doing all right." "Well," she hesitated, "that's good. Please tell her I love her." That's the story that convinced Ash Kotak that Jheri and her...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...medium through which my art finds expression and the subject matter that it articulates. I know that the quilt form usually is associated with feelings of warmth, comfort, serenity and...
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...
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...