On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...remove white (and sometimes African American) people, are in fact a steady presence throughout pre-1850 southern literature. Though narrated by white Europeans and EuroAmericans, and in a few instances by...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...an instant, and Shirley was quiet. It was three days now since Shirley had begun to die, and everyone knew now and had given up any hope. Even the white...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and sports photographer and filmmaker; information about him may be found at http://www.burtonholmes.org/associates/andredelavarre.html. Although it contains glaring inaccuracies and blind spots (plantation houses, for instance, were rarely the homes of Cajuns,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...12, 1966 At his funeral eight years before the tree planting, white eulogists of Henry "Billy" Mitchell (1883-1958), one of the Emory's most important African American employees during the first...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...events. I feel that viewers of the photographs have a better way of relating to the loss when they see other family members included in the scene. For instance, the...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Terms of Sale—One-third cash; remainder by bond, bearing interest from day of sale, payable in two equal annual instalments, to be secured by mortgage on the negroes, and approved personal...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...general insights into humanity. For instance, this Eliot epigram fits the current occupant of the White House and his cronies: "There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...Where, for instance, traditional histories examined conservationism and perhaps Progressive Era smokestack regulation, Spears discusses resistance to slavery, and pre-Civil War public health debates, in addition to the emergence of...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Bay and raise the sea level. Early History Indians moved into the Chesapeake region about 12,000 years ago and adjusted to a series of environmental shifts in the region. We...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...For instance, the great risks taken by workers while crossing the border are covered very briefly and illustrated with an image of a family running. In this essay we are...