Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
Review Warning the governor of Kentucky that the white South stood on the brink of destruction in 1860, secession commissioner Stephen F. Hale wrote that Lincoln's election "inaugurates all the...
Piedmont Blues
...sake of clarity, this essay defines the Piedmont blues region as spanning from Danville, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, running approximately 325 miles from northeast to southwest and being seventy-five to...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...(directly north and southwest of Columbus), all the counties are poorer than the state average. Troup Below poverty line %: 14.8 Per capita income: $17,626 Harris Below poverty line %:...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...of African Americans from the South played football in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Southwest Conference (SWC), leaving the best African American high-school players...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...After buying rural routes from the Kerrville Bus Company in 2012, the discount travel company Megabus recently discontinued service to small towns in Texas' Southwest Area Regional Transit District, leaving...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...alone. The wind was hot and it blew from the southwest. It blew past them across the dry fields of yellow weeds that spread before them, up to the low...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...DC, from the Capitol looking west-southwest, c. 1863. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127632. In 1862, the very year that all enslaved men and women in the District...
Brushes with War
...Reams' Station, Virginia, during the last stage of an arduous cavalry raid. Jameson was shipped to Andersonville Prison, the overcrowded, unsanitary, and disease-ridden POW stockade in southwest Georgia. By August,...
Besieged Terrain
...eastern Kentucky, most of West Virginia, southeastern Ohio, and southwestern Pennsylvania. Because this area was not glaciated during the last ice age, which ended 12,500 years ago, it became a...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...