Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...as date and performer. WPA translations and records accompany audio explanations of each performer's relationship with the item in question to greater illustrate many of the items, particularly those in...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Two: Stony the Road We Trod A slave coffle gives testimony to the miles and miles that men, women, and children were forced to trudge while shackled and chained. —Gwen...
The Liminal Site
...area with a limestone outcrop just below the footpath. When we moved in, all of this was overgrown with vines and all the invasive (sometimes botany employs political discourse, too)...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...be that voters and white voters prefer different candidates now because they have different ideas about what the government should do."7Transcript of Oral Argument, Merrill v. Milligan, 105. Simply put,...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland." King's empathetic analysis brought to light many of...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the first decades of the twentieth century, a network of "vindicationist collectors" had also emerged in the African American community. By 1916, many of them had become members of the...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 and was lynched for it—catalyzed men and women into an irresistible movement for change. He's right; so many people roughly of Till's age when...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...and Princeton Seminary and Slavery: A Report of the Historical Audit Committee (slavery.ptsem.edu/full-report). Also see Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities,...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...as obsessed with revolutions in the Caribbean as their counterparts in South Carolina and Louisiana. Geography may have created different ideas about revolutions, but this remains uncertain and, in any...