Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
The Liminal Site
...is worth while," they wrote, "also to provide parks of the mountain type—places where people can climb, can enjoy the wild woods, and can enjoy that sense of freedom and...
Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...crossing the Ohio River to the North. The Ohio River was the border between the free states of the north and slavery states of the south. Even after crossing the...
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...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...as free people of color) living under and against such systems—carving out unique spaces, whether economic, cultural, or sexual, in which they exercised the very agency that colonial officials and...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...migrant heartbreaks as in the story of an enslaved woman named Nancy who in 1815 was freed by her master only to learn that under a 1806 law she had...