Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...voting Republican. Arlington estate straddled two of Alexandria County's three districts, giving the Freedman's Village political clout at the local level. Blacks held council seats, the county treasurer's office, the...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...surgical operation upon themselves."2James Hale, letter to Charles Harris, July 27, 1843, North Carolina State Archives. The Siamese Twins, Jeffersonian Republic, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1844. Excerpt from newspaper article...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...American Revolution when a handful of prescient leaders in mountain towns of what is today Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina ascertained that the long knife republic was not going to...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...the vast Spanish empire, was transformed into a Mexican state during the age of revolution, converted once again to a secessionist stronghold as an "independent" republic, annexed as a slave...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...A single image or map may prompt multiple readings. Drawing on fieldwork they conducted separately in present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1970s and 1980s, Mary Nooter Roberts...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of American Art. Magee's work also has been exhibited in the Museum of Arts and Design, the Atlanta History Museum, the National Art Gallery of the Republic of Namibia, the...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Seneca Quarry
...Company. The new owners mismanaged the company, significantly undercapitalizing it by selling stock to senior Republican leaders at half-price (including Ulysses S. Grant), then took out several mortgages that they...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...of North Carolina Press, 2009); Gary Gallagher, The Union War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011); Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York:...