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
...Louisiana Story. This combined emphasis echoes Renov's sense of documentary as coupling a dual impulse: "an outward gaze upon the world—with an equally forceful reflex of self-interrogation."6Ibid., 105. In Revisiting,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...as an earthly instantiation of Heaven on earth came to function as an important medium of social remapping that proved "good to think" with about a wide range of social...
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...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
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
...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...