Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the plantation through the Civil War until freedom came in the spring of 1865. Some newly freed people also stayed in the vicinity. For example, the man Scipio listed in...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...the babies in the line waiting for vaccines, they camp overnight at the clinic to get a vaccine . . . even the anti-vaccination Brazilians vaccinate in secret."7Kiratiana Freelon, "Opinion:...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...runaway slave from Georgia, hiding the fact that he was once a free man from most of the people he met in order to avoid even more brutal treatment. Northup's...
And the Prize Goes to...
...seminar, “How to Study the South Today,” this exercise serves as the final step in a conversation about the scholarly tools needed to conduct intersectional research and produce multi-modal work....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...class struggle—and I could not. Because from the beginning of my graduate school education until today—that is, for the last 35 years— the majority of my teaching jobs have been...
Writing Appalachia
...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...that house open-pollinated varieties rather than hybrids has fallen drastically over the last quarter century; I estimate that less than one quarter of Ozark gardens today can be characterized as...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Reprint from the Lindesmith Center (New York: Lindesmith Center, 1999), 43–44. The drug was marijuana.2Though usually spelled "marijuana" today, "marihuana" was the most common spelling in the United States during...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Texas Revolution: the conflict from which the phrase "Remember the Alamo!" comes.3The actions of those fallen at the Alamo were glorified in Texas history and culture, and today, the Alamo...