Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...lived to Purpose: He preach'd with Fidelity: He pray'd for his People: And being dead he speaks. The rear of the stone adds one factual detail: He left to the...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Magoffin of Kentucky. Hale's letter appeared nearly seventy years after the Haitian Revolution began and fifty-five years after Haiti won independence from France. Nevertheless, as Carl Lawrence Paulus demonstrates in...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...African Americans. As Eugene H. Berwanger has illustrated, "a large group of settlers was more anti-Negro than antislavery."11Eugene H. Berwanger, The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...them down, even going on a stake-out in New Orleans.20Sibley, Turned Funny, 258. The children had gone to live with Cricket's parents in Indiana and neither Mary nor Celestine saw them...
The Black Belt
...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Sexuality: Volume One: An Introduction (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 78. The book's title is often translated as "Volume One: An Introduction." The "truth" of sex for Foucault is not...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...encroachment of African American families into white neighborhoods. One of these individuals, Pete Garcia, later admitted that he had painted 'For Whites Only' signs in the neighborhood, threatened black home...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
..."how are you," usually spoken heartily. From Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) Reprinted with permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1966 by the University of Nebraska...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...of the Art of the Americas at the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Question and Answer Session Megan O'Neil, 2020. Courtesy of Megan O'Neil. Megan O'Neil: Thank you, Craig. The audience...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...and a key railroad supply line, amounted to a major defensive victory for the Union forces.1Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing But Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 (New York: Alfred...