Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...system of linked places that persisted through the upheavals of the eighteenth century and continually challenged British notions of order and control. Paulett asserts that incompatible mapping between British ideals...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...borrow the notion of "the thin black line" from the seminal black british visual artists' exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid in 1985. For the purpose of today's reflection, the "thin black line" resonates ideas about...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Teche, André de LaVarre, Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1942. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures. In contrast to Flaherty's characters, the "Quaint Folks" of LaVarre's Columbia film are anonymous and typified; the voice-over...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...The Public Debate," Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 22 (1992): 392-394. It was no accident that multinational corporations looking for favorable terms and cheap labor identified Mexico as...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...For example, we learn of an enslaved native cartographer, a Tawasa man named Lamhatty, whose local geographic knowledge of Florida's Gulf coast enabled his British captors to understand the region...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...1850, centered on the Fugitive Slave Law, Congress in September 1850 prohibited the slave trade within the District of Columbia. Slavery itself continued in the District until April 16, 1862,...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Dancy, R. H. W. Leak et al. vs. Seaboard Airline and Southern Railroad," in Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina (Raleigh: Guy V. Barnes,...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...housed in cabins on the north end of Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 2019. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. The British took control of Ossabaw in the 1730s, by which time the...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...substantial construction also enables them to be easily and cheaply moved when threatened by the gradual encroachment of the sea, which upon many sections of the coast, effects in the...