Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the clouds closed quietly around the moon as the thunder rumbled and the heavy drops began to fall, slowly at first, then irregularly, then increasing to a rhythmic rush of...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...Crespino, eds., The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). It is through this myth that non-southerners have projected national sins, particularly racial sins, upon the South....
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...unknown immigrant in the Shenandoah Valley in 1847. Drawing upon a deep trove of artifacts from the Virginia Board of Immigration (founded after the Civil War and run by Polish...
Whiskey and Geography
...meals, though those who could afford it also purchased imported rum and wine. Men, women, and often even children drank whiskey at various time of day, and the beverage enlivened...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...alluvial land and moss draped swamps, their single stoplight towns and rural architecture. Here a photographer sees the markers of preindustrial agricultural societies—the boarded plantation store, the lonely white-framed Missionary...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the "moral community" of border people. Some worked intentionally to evade criminal sanction, not revenue collection. Cattle rustlers in the late nineteenth century, along with bootleggers and drug runners...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). A number of established and would-be government officials themselves incorporated Indian children into their...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...government can be found in Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001). Nowhere was southern...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...terrorism that blacks endured as they labored to establish households and communities in rural and urban environments.1Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New...