Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...suppress slave rebellions on a federal scale. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. In 1789, many US citizens gloried in the spread of the ideals of the...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Jafa's daring formalism whetted my appetite for bold, ambitious scholarship in which "forms, techniques, and ideas coalesce into an indigenous or vernacular tradition while remaining opportunistically open to influence and...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Americas, its historical ties to French, Spanish, and British imperial projects, and its discourse of both cultural distinctiveness and interconnectedness, is an ideal subject for this approach. As an exercise...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...extensive and informative chapters. Cholera, in contrast, receives no such spotlight, since it “did not arrive in the region until very late in the story, in the 1830s, and did...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...it raises, Mississippi River Tragedies makes a convincing case for the importance of including law in the historical study of environmental change. Accessibly written, this book is an entertaining introduction...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Brood II, a billions-strong legion of cicadas, is expected to emerge later this summer and overrun the East Coast from North Carolina...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL" multimedia exhibit that includes stories and displays artifacts from the LGBT movement, including the AIDS crisis, in Atlanta....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...pre-World War II South is large. Major works include Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely, Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962); Morton Sosna, In Search of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the least thing he is interested in is a well-chosen word in English. Some people may think it odd to hear Lot’s wife referred to as "Old Lady Lot." Church...