Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...gawking tourists, all staples of premiers up at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.1We should all refuse to call Grauman's Chinese Theater, with its famed footprints of the stars out...
The Shenandoah Valley
...and Eastern Woodland Indians used it to occupy the edges of their tribal territories and as an avenue for travel and warfare. Map of Virginia indicating Powhatan presence, 1924. Map...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Children: Slavery, Gradual Emancipation, and the Free Womb Trade in Colombia," The Americas 78.2 (2021): 229–257. Historians have used the notion of "the peasant breach" to capture the emergence of...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...building. Photograph by Flickr user Larry Miller. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Scholars of Texas history will find Rough Country's data and empirical content useful in situating the religious...
Palomares Bajo
...determine the "revolutionary use value" in owning up to historical wrongs and in allying with the people of Palomares to right them.5Walter Benjamin, "The Author as Producer," in Thinking Photographically,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and brutality. This version of human bondage, nurtured in Charleston and fostered by proponents in the former Confederate states as part of the Lost Cause tradition, has had broad white...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...the head of a hollow that is used for waste disposal. Then, reclamation (i.e., attempts to restore the area to a useful standard) occurs. This involves using the graded and...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...the spring of 1957. The NAACP attorneys called it "completely inadequate," noting among other things that it would deny any relief to Robert Kelley and the named plaintiffs, because all...