Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...ed., Roosevelt and Daniels: A Friendship in Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952). "a colored boy's friend" As editor, Daniels quickly developed a reputation for himself and his newspaper...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...drinking of her husband, Jim Little, cost him job after job.14Sibley claims that his boss at the AP shattered his confidence in the early 1940s, and an offer was made...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...of breakbulk cargo. The Loyola Documentary and Oral History Studio fuses traditional oral history methodology with the high production value recording found in modern documentaries. These recording procedures afford flexibility...
The Black Belt
...for civil rights. At lunch counters, in city parks, on courthouse squares, in registrars’ offices, and on the highways and backstreets, thousands of citizens challenged the historical spaces and practices...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...be categorized, numbered, and made intelligible forms part of what Michel Foucault, in his History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, called the "deployment of sexuality."3Michel Foucault, The History of...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...Mexican American history, he misses an opportunity to place his findings within a larger historiography. Had he situated the Mexican American whiteness strategy—and its replacement with a brownness strategy—in context...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...crooked rivulet down his temple until he wiped it away. In his emptiness the boy did not want his sister to die. "Mama?" "What is it, son?" "Is Shirley going...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...I'm going to flash forward through a huge expansive history. I'm going to skip Creeks as ancient mound builders, skip colonial history and Creek Nation relationships to the English and...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the rallying cry of "McPherson and Revenge." 3: US Army Counterattack US Army Brigadier General Joseph Lightburn, shown on his chestnut-colored horse near the front of his brigade, led his...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...bundles of such mailings in the post office's possession and likely more about to arrive, Postmaster Alfred Huger, an enslaver himself, was flummoxed, caught between his federal duties and his...