An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...sight. This bad negro, the property of Chang, was reported one night to be in the negro cabins of a slave owner near Mount Airy. The citizen went with his...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lane/id/4891. Equally intriguing is Haley's examination of a clemency petition involving Martha Gault, a white woman...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...part of the Green Power Switch program of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The windfarm consists of eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...able to intertwine the economic, medical, and environmental threads so successfully. One recent exception who managed to set the bar high is William Dusinberre, author of another fine Lowcountry study...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...somewhat uneven book, law professors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer combine environmental and legal history in their examination of the relationship between human action and disaster in the...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...journal The Camp Merton Chronicles in November 1995. Peel's project centered on the renovation of Atlanta's John Howell Park and a new statue to be installed in it. Titled Hope...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947). By evaluating the strict codification of racial ideologies in the legislative councils of French and Spanish Louisiana...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...potential consequences of the sweeping revolutions in France and nearby Haiti. Meeting of White Men and Indians, General Oglethorpe meeting Creek Nation. Print originally published in John Lossing's An Outline...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...exists a third alternative in Antoine, the narrator. Having lived for seventy-plus years, Antoine has succumbed to neither magistricide nor suicide as a response to slavery; instead, he tells stories...