Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...as envisioned by Odum and Johnson and initiated by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Important in its own day but now largely forgotten, A Southerner Discovers the South deserves renewed attention...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...them landscaped.36Sibley, A Place Called Sweet Apple (1986), 235. Using words like "marching" and "pierce," Sibley depicts these suburban developments as invading and ravaging the natural landscape of her area. The large...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...really needed great port cities."5Richard Campanella, Bienville's Dilemma: a Historical Geography of New Orleans (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008), 232. Even bananas, the most...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Production of The Laramie Project. Photograph by Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. Courtesy of Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. In 2012, according to a report from the National Coalition of...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...African American populations in roughly equal numbers. Reflecting this demography, Texas maintained a "dual Jim Crow system" (5) which enforced discrimination against both populations through a hodge-podge of laws and...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the head deacon. Her permission must be given before many procedures concerning the church are possible. She is called Hoktuke Emathla {Hoktvke-enhomahtv}-First Lady of the Church. The most important job...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...And I'm wondering if any of the scholars in the panel know about laws regarding language access or language advocacy, not just for the Muscogee language or the Creek people,...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Solution that stood as a form of governance, a system of labor management and land assessment, and an intellectual and cultural master trope."24Davarian L. Baldwin, "'I Will Build a Black...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Postal Campaign of 1835," The Journal of Negro History 50, no. 4 (1965): 227–386. When a large bundle of them arrived at the Charleston Post Office in late July, some...