James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the necessity of addressing this phenomenon, placing Faulkner as only "the most distinguished" among what he recognizes as "a galaxy of accomplished literary artists."7Louis Rubin, "The Dixie Special: William Faulkner...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and by allowing states to treat enslaved blacks as non-persons or chattel property—while counting them as three-fifths of a person for purposes of apportioning voting power among the states in...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...whispers that, within this mighty tomb, reposes perhaps some wizard of colossal race" who might, if properly provoked, "drag you down to darkness and death" (156). Allen Glennon, Rotunda Room, Mammoth...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...de Tierra, Cádiz, Spain, 2020. Primer punto del itinerario de 'Cádiz en José Martí.' [First stop on the "Cádiz en José Martí" itinerary.] Photograph by Abel González Melo. Courtesy of...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...reports of the US House or Senate issued in 1982 as the Congress debated and renewed the Act with amendments. None are mentioned as recommended standards in the extensive testimony...