A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...by having the climactic scene of "Kabnis" take place underground is figured aboveground in 12 Years a Slave. At one point during his captivity on the Epps plantation (time in...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...never done any filming at all. Because of my agricultural background and my organizing, and farming, I came back to the United States and, after a couple of fits and...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...institution, so long dominated by a privileged few. Background Material, 2009 Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page Wood, fabric, paint, and paper Juan Logan's Background Material: Wallpaper, a...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
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...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...the March on Washington, Karro organized a community road trip from her suburban Maryland neighborhood to Danville where they joined meetings and attended church.45The Washington Post, September 5, 1963. USPS...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...Cooke to Barry White while always remaining the work of an original voice and visionary. Jericho Brown. Photo courtesy of Emory University. “I was around twenty-four years old when I...