The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...these limitations, Louisiana offers valuable insights for students and scholars interested in its primary subject: the creation of racial hierarchies that enabled slavery to increasingly flourish here "before cotton" (204)....
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
"Aint that Something?"
...win many friends at a high school where most of the students have family working for the coal company and Friends of Coal stickers decorate the principal's office. When she...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...celebration of Biggers's thirtieth anniversary at TSU, a number of former students wrote to express gratitude to their teacher. "Thanks for being a guiding light for young black artists," wrote...
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...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Dr. John as his "college education," watching and listening to a master at work. In 1972, after the death of Duane Allman and prior to the death of Berry Oakley,...
The Liminal Site
...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Production of The Laramie Project. Photograph by Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. Courtesy of Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. In 2012, according to a report from the National Coalition of...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...would likely curb college-age voting by preventing parents from claiming college students as dependents on their state income tax returns if their child registers to vote at their college address....