Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...was "less deep" but because conditions differed so greatly between the sections" (101). Lynching Beyond Dixie also has the laudable effect of bringing otherwise forgotten lives back into the historical narrative....
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Wood, age forty seven, born in England, lived adjacent to the widow of John P. C. Peter and her new husband Rev. Charles Nourse. Of the approximately one hundred free...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...has Toklas say) she grew up. Then to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for college, to Baltimore for medical school, then back to the Paris where she had lived with her family as...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the anger; see what actions we must take in our own lives, where we live every day, to bring about social justice. In welcoming her tonight, I dare to borrow...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...figure who lived in a realm beyond reach and is now sealed away in an otherworld. What could be more detached and isolated from the lived history of Jim Crow...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
..."a transnational lens in the recovery of queer voices, lives, and experiences."4Capó, 7. Queerness is the central analytical tool through which Capó explores Greater Miami. In his history, Capó traces...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb show the breadth of anti-Mexican violence in the US West between 1848 and 1928, Villanueva details what this meant for targeted individuals.1William D. Carrigan...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...a place for tribes to live and govern themselves. So, the US had to approach the tribes in the Territory—in a way that they didn't have to approach tribes in...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...to a self-imposed exile some twenty-five years ago, I live once again in West Virginia. Contrasts with the 1970s heyday of working-class activism are evident throughout the rural landscape of...