Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
..."National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Eatonville Historic District," September 9, 1997, https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/e5fa60c5-551d-41d3-bbef-2a52ff3a7b0b. Eatonville was a fully developed town featuring a bustling business district, churches, and one of the...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural landscapes. The "wilderness" and...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...fifty years. The exodus continues today as black and white young people seek out places with better economic opportunities. “Outlands” suggests places that are not just rural but removed...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...wanted to learn Spanish and to learn about Latin America, so I could to figure out not only about the places these North Carolina farm workers were coming from, but...
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...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...1490s. With its explicit geographic focus, the volume consciously adopts David Armitage's popular genre of "Cis-Atlantic history," which explores "particular places as unique locations within an Atlantic world and seeks...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...our agony and suffering to them? Have they not, just as often, seen their best horses die? They don't weep for them, for they're rich, and tomorrow they'll buy others.....