Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Williams, and Marshall filed suit against the Nashville city schools on behalf of twenty-one African American children, one of whom was fourteen-year-old Robert W. Kelley, who had been turned away...
Mississippi Delta
...unknown creator. Bottom, African-American tenant cabin, Armstrong Plantation, Mississippi, 1934. Photograph by unknown creator. Both photographs courtesy of Mississippi State University Libraries, Special Collections Department, University Archives, Cooperative Extension Service Photographs,...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...laterally via competitive forces" (146). This American success myth, described by film scholar Julie Levinson as incorporating "the dream of rags-to-riches, the image of the can-do American, the credo of...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...African American families at these and other scales, see Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008); Anthony...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Richard Weyhing is an assistant professor of history at State University of New York at Oswego specializing in early American history, Native American history, and history of the Atlantic World....
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...as “the most photogenic disaster in American history since the Civil War.”1Codrescu, Andrei, cover blurb for Jane Fulton Alt, Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans’s Lower Ninth...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Essay Canal Street, Separating the Old from the New City, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Reminders of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal are hard to miss in many American...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...