MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...the first black-owned comic book series to reach national acclaim, Brotherman sold approximately 750,000 issues worldwide on the independent circuit. Before Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone Comics made a splash by adding numerous black...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...170 Bald cypress in Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, August 2, 2006. Photograph by Rebecca Wynn, uploaded by Albert Herring. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...store, their social-change work was focused on community work through a radical enclave of the nondenominational Christian youth group called Young Life.11Mev Miller, A Labor of Love: A Tribute to Twenty-five...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...from Flaherty's juxtapositions of natural landscape with man-made technology. "Evangeline" "Evangeline," Layla Soileau and Marty Garner, 2006 A bilingual film about language and storytelling. Interview with Layla Soileau and Marty...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009); Gallay, Indian Slavery in Colonial America;...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...see Jefferson R. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Wal-Mart, the most successful corporation operating in the global economy of the twenty-first...
Genres of Southern Literature
...its genre might not seem a touchstone of much value. To some, genres are universal categories that describe formal literary conventions, not geo-social preoccupations. Yet, the South can be said...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...its emphasis on what one judge called “the weight of history.” Brooks’s stories about language choices provide the basis for her idea that nation language might still appeal to tribal...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...University of North Carolina Press, 1970), 39-41; Laura F. Edwards, "The Marriage Covenant is at the Foundation of All Our Rights" Law and History Review 14.1 (Spring 1996): 81-124; Catherine...