Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...60. Richardson's own will, however, undercut Woodmason's view of his wife. He provided for her with care uncommon in the era. The will implies genuine affection rather than "a bitter...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...with slavery and more to do with the black population of the United States" (185). Northerners remembered Walker's promises. They expected Texas to absorb black people and for new territory...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the name of Kansas for the national audience. "'We will keep ourselves right with the record,' as the politicians say, and there the matter will end for all time," it...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the hills with the old-time mountaineers completely cut off from civilization" and end with the coming of the Tennessee Valley Authority — and with it, he implied, the dawn of...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...(Fleming), who became pregnant at age seventeen and eloped with the baby's father, Cricket Fleming. The baby, a son named Richard, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome only a few...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...its peak in 1960 with just under 630,000 inhabitants, or almost twice that of the present-day total, all contained within a smaller footprint. With large tracts of the Orleans Parish...
The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...be categorized, numbered, and made intelligible forms part of what Michel Foucault, in his History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, called the "deployment of sexuality."3Michel Foucault, The History of...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...racial segregation" (5), he relies on a number of quotations from the secondary literature to explain Mexican American experiences, leaving readers without a clear understanding of the system. Without a...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...will not bother anyone. The deceased is not buried with his shoes on, nor is he dressed in wool (because it is of the lamb). Bibles are not buried with...