Encountering COVID
...There was no church service, just a graveside service, because of course we had to be outside. Afterwards, my husband and I just drove around because I just was not...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone," is an expanded version of a piece Allewaert published in PMLA.2Monique Allewaert, "Swamp Sublime: Ecologies of Resistance in the American Plantation...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...frame and explored violence directed against racial and ethnic groups other than African Americans.2See William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (Charlottesville:...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...University's theater offerings and gave Atlanta's African American community access to serious drama with professional stage sets and costumes. Moreover, she opened the university community to the American theater world,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...old racial order. The city's African American population contended with the framework of this struggle. In 1870, Blacks accounted for nearly half of Atlanta's population. As free persons they competed...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Richard Weyhing is an assistant professor of history at State University of New York at Oswego specializing in early American history, Native American history, and history of the Atlantic World....
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His books and articles embrace multiple aspects of urban and American culture, particularly the history of various social groups in American cities since 1800....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...public schools. These families can use the funds to send their children to almost any K–12 private school, including home-schooling, or purchase a wide range of educational materials and services,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...for broad sacrifice from the American people, who bluntly told them there was no free lunch. And Americans hated it. Ronald Reagan set the template: every candidate that followed, with...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...