New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...by having the climactic scene of "Kabnis" take place underground is figured aboveground in 12 Years a Slave. At one point during his captivity on the Epps plantation (time in...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...institution, so long dominated by a privileged few. Background Material, 2009 Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page Wood, fabric, paint, and paper Juan Logan's Background Material: Wallpaper, a...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...this project from a Faulkner background, and those from a more technical, digital humanities background. This digital work provides the opportunity for established Faulkner scholars such as Jay Watson at...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...newly incorporated town of Oxford, Georgia, to radiate along broad geometrical avenues from the planned campus, itself organized around a stately oval drive. Devoted in large measure to preparing young...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...to its study sites, has conducted world-renowned research on salt-marsh ecology and other aspects of natural communities on and around the island. Reynolds' widow, Annemarie Reynolds, sold much of the...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Louisiana remained in practice what historian Kathleen Duval refers to as a "Native Ground" well into the nineteenth century.1Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the...