The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...really needed great port cities."5Richard Campanella, Bienville's Dilemma: a Historical Geography of New Orleans (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008), 232. Even bananas, the most...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Production of The Laramie Project. Photograph by Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. Courtesy of Chuck Zovko and Lafayette College. In 2012, according to a report from the National Coalition of...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...African American populations in roughly equal numbers. Reflecting this demography, Texas maintained a "dual Jim Crow system" (5) which enforced discrimination against both populations through a hodge-podge of laws and...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Postal Campaign of 1835," The Journal of Negro History 50, no. 4 (1965): 227–386. When a large bundle of them arrived at the Charleston Post Office in late July, some...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Solution that stood as a form of governance, a system of labor management and land assessment, and an intellectual and cultural master trope."24Davarian L. Baldwin, "'I Will Build a Black...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...large negro population in Lawrence, and it seems to be on the increase.'"19On Lawrence and racist violence, see Ibid, 206, 269-272 [quoted passage, 206]. This essay explores the ways in...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...marsh behind Cabretta Beach, with storm-washover fans of sand showing how the beach is moving laterally across the salt marsh. 2:13 – This is part of a time-lapse of marsh...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) at Emory University has launched a self-guided mobile tour of Battle-related sites throughout the city, complete with maps, historical information, photos and videos,...