Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
A City Divided
...lining Jackson Hill, just east of the Atlanta's downtown, were uncomfortable with the presence of African Americans in the area, it did not surface publicly until 1910. That year, local...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Consider O'Connor's commentary on Richard Chase's 1957 book, The American Novel and Its Tradition: Letter dated 1 October 1960. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Texas Press, 2012), from which this essay is adapted. About the Katrina Bookshelf Series The University of Texas Press is proud to introduce the Katrina Bookshelf Series, Kai Erikson, Series...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...American musical canon. Through multiple rounds of interracial and cross-class appropriations southern "folk," black and white have long made minstrelsy. Miller's book helps us understand how celebrations of small town...
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...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 2014). For the "second slavery" see Dale W. Tomich, Through the Prism...
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...