They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...as the instigator, is from the Owensboro (Ky.) Daily Inquirer, 21 Apr. 1911, 1. Owensboro is a small city located near Livermore, in the western region of the state. A...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Slavery and Human Progress,...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in the twentieth, she recaptures the very experience and practice of captivity, removing it from its western generic place and casting it as primarily a tribal affair, a concerted effort...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...in telling ways. He rightly challenges assumptions that the West was a racial utopia that differed markedly from the racist reality to the East, as "the western frontier did not...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...the midwestern and southwestern regions once controlled by Mississippian chiefdoms. He rejects the primacy of disease in the collapse of chiefdoms, instead using European traders’ accounts and limited archaeological evidence...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...African Americans, such as southwest Atlanta.10For a rich discussion of the development and growth of these neighborhoods on the western, southwestern, and southern edges of the city of Atlanta from...
The Liminal Site
...non-native species mentioned above—mercifully minus kudzu but plus mimosa. Our discovery that the fence even had a gate was the result of an almost archaeological investigation. Unlike my midwestern in-laws,...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers in the northwestern corner of the present-day state of Mississippi, has experienced enormous environmental change since the Civil War. Agriculture, lumbering, and remaking of the...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...that as many as 500,000 Maya have migrated to the United States. Most come from poor rural towns and villages in the western highlands of Guatemala where they speak one...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...3, no. 3 (2003): 266, 301. In other words, under the guise of describing the entire "human race," the term "humanity" has come to reify and universalize Western values and...