Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Louisiana remained in practice what historian Kathleen Duval refers to as a "Native Ground" well into the nineteenth century.1Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...and battery against free persons are severely punished even by death if the person struck falls to the ground" (210). Zelia's action, deemed rebellious within the dictates of the system...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...Cooke to Barry White while always remaining the work of an original voice and visionary. Jericho Brown. Photo courtesy of Emory University. “I was around twenty-four years old when I...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...to its study sites, has conducted world-renowned research on salt-marsh ecology and other aspects of natural communities on and around the island. Reynolds' widow, Annemarie Reynolds, sold much of the...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...newly incorporated town of Oxford, Georgia, to radiate along broad geometrical avenues from the planned campus, itself organized around a stately oval drive. Devoted in large measure to preparing young...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...for use around the campfire, a testament to their love of the music considering the volume’s size and weight. A number of composers less directly involved in the book’s production...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...also typical of southern quilts of the era in that the blocks are set solidly within a grid of wide fabric strips, called "sashing." She quilted around the edges of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...better. Mama said to stay around the church grounds." "Aw, you're just afraid." "No, it's just that—" "'Mama said to stay around the church grounds!' Fraidycat, I'll go by myself...