Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...love of fun and whimsy. The city's storied restaurants, several of them still in business, get proper billing; so do legendary recipes. Even the history it serves up is entertaining,...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...that she compiled for the Sounding Spirit publishing initiative. Fulton turned to The Emancipation Car as Sounding Spirit searched for words from historical composers and hymnwriters in expressing our solidarity...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...descent "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." This essay places Nannie's enigmatic gravesite and headstone in the context of the social, political, and spiritual history...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...or requiring, lessons on race, sex and gender,” Washington Post, Apr. 4, 2024; “America’s Censored Classrooms,” PEN America, Aug. 17, 2022, https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/. It is hard to imagine a more divergent,...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...farmers, businessmen, and the nascent automobile industry) accelerated nationwide after 1910 when affordable automobiles vastly expanded the potential for an upgraded road network to present a viable alternative for long-distance...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...unquestionably clear is that the twins by this time had adopted the mindset, in all its permutations, of the oppressor class, the whites who owned slaves. In September 1845, they...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...terms of country of origin and where they settled in the state), class, race, and gender. We chose people who had lived the "American dream" of achieving financial success, but also...
Roadside Architecture
...at least to my eyes. The churches, for example, reflect their creators' faith in the supreme importance of their goal and give voice to the notion that spiritual concerns supersede...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...