A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Atlanta, Georgia, 2000 US Census, http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US1304000&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_QTP3&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U (accessed May 23, 2006). In Sibley's imagined urban spaces, African Americans regularly appear as servants. Here again, white nostalgia infuses her conception of...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...Trains: Holocaust Artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1 (2005). Midway through the the National Museum of American History’s celebrated “Field to Factory”...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Henry Richards, Jan. 17, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 15, to Thomas McCarty, Jan. 17, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 16, and to Robert Smith, Jan. 18, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 21,...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Atlantic World offers fascinating glimpses into worlds previously overlooked by many historians of the early American experience. About the Author Richard Weyhing is an assistant professor of history at State...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...on Thlewarle and Mendoza’s story illuminate tensions of spatial jurisdictions About the Author Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar, writer, and teacher. He received an...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Topeka State Journal, Topeka, Kansas, December 22, 1896. Bottom, Excerpt, The Washington Times, Washington, DC, September 15, 1919. Newspaper article clippings. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...1,438 rolls, source consulted: s.v. P. Cleveland, 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Albemarle County, Virginia, http://www.ancestry.com/; P. Cleveland to [Thomas P. Jackson], May 6, 1867, Valley of the...