Good-Bye to All That?
...a whole. But in some ways, the vote in this county is a microcosm of what is happening across America. When my wife, Jane, and I moved here part-time in...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...place in which to examine the developments and cultural dynamics that have over the past century and a half decidedly shaped America" (6). While the sheer size, diversity, and geographic...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Review On June 19, 1911, the quiet evening descending on Thorndale, Texas, shattered suddenly when a group of men exiting a saloon attacked a youth they found whittling wood. Eyewitnesses...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...teaches modern United States history. He is the author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) and Defending White Democracy: The...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Bywater, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2010. Photograph by Dorothy Moye. Bywater artist Erica Larkin has created a permanent provenance in wrought iron. © Dorothy Moye. Rose describes an art work...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1983); Dale H. Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Courtesy of Steve Bransford. Buck dancing was popularized in America by minstrel performers in the nineteenth century. The International Encyclopedia of Dance explains, "The old-style African-American buck dance consists essentially...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...Europe during the Thirty Years' War. It's like something the poet Charles Simic might imagine. I'm currently reading Pekka Hämäläinen's Lakota America, a history of the Sioux people that begins...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...attack on a consensus history.2Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955). In scores of...
The Shenandoah Valley
...beauty, rich soil, abundant water, and mild climate have contributed to its position as one of the most dynamic regions in Virginia, the South, and Eastern America. From the earliest...