Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Delta and Bayou in "Outlands."4James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 178. Clay not only had a desire to document the vestiges of an older...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Richard Benning. Courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, G4014.N5 1761 .P53. A prolific, award-winning author and commentator on New Orleans's historical geography, Campanella has...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...overall diversity of American society. How can Texas inform the religious dynamics of Chicago, Boston, or Salt Lake City? How does the geography of Texas, with its open ranges, close...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...art tackles situations of inequality and power dynamics. Her solo shows have included exhibitions at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, the Hammonds House Museum/Auburn Avenue Research Library Auxiliary Gallery...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...his wife, Martha Custis Washington. After Mrs. Washington's death in 1802, a number of her slaves at Mount Vernon were inherited by Martha Custis Peter, adding to the Peter family...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...